Hiroshima survivor Hashizume Bun stands next to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in 2011 (AFP Photo/Madeleine Pradel)
AFP: Hiroshima atomic bomb victims want apology from Obama
Tokyo (AFP) - Victims of the atomic bombings of Japan want an apology from US President Barack Obama when he visits Hiroshima next week, the head of a survivors' group said Thursday.
Obama will become the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima, where the first atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945, killing about 140,000 people in total.
Tens of thousands were killed by the fireball that the powerful Hiroshima blast generated, with many more succumbing to injuries or illnesses caused by radiation in the weeks, months and years afterwards.
Vast swathes of the city, including many of its military and industrial installations, were flattened.
The southern city of Nagasaki was hit by a second bomb days later, killing 74,000 people, in one of the final acts of World War II.
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Update #1: A-Bomb Survivors Want Obama to Meet, Apologize in Hiroshima -- AP
Update #2: Hiroshima victims want Obama apology (The Hill)
WNU Editor: Not going to happen. An American apology would enrage the rest of Asia who are still fuming that Japan has not properly apologized and/or recognized the destruction that it caused before and during the Second World War. And as much as President Obama may want to apologize .... the disrespect and anger that will be directed at him from everyone else in Asia if he should do this is something that he does not want his Asian legacy to be remembered about.
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