Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, November 13, 2009 : uit dit artikel :
HIROSHIMA, JAPAN -- An inconvenient invitation awaits President Obama when he lands Friday in Japan. It's one that no sitting U.S. president has accepted and that Obama's tight schedule in Japan cannot accommodate: an invitation to visit the cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The bomb at Hiroshima dropped on Aug. 6, 1945, killed an estimated 140,000 people. Nagasaki was bombed three days later, killing about 80,000. Six days after that, World War II ended with Japan's unconditional surrender.
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kan Obama zo'n verzoek weigeren ? 't is toch al vierenzestig jaar geleden ?
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( In Hiroshima, the invitation to Obama will remain open, but he is hardly alone in not finding the time to accept it. According to the city's peace promotion department, no sitting head of state from any nation with nuclear weapons has visited the memorial, which lists the names of the dead.
Special correspondent Akiko Yamamoto contributed to this report. )
HIROSHIMA, JAPAN -- An inconvenient invitation awaits President Obama when he lands Friday in Japan. It's one that no sitting U.S. president has accepted and that Obama's tight schedule in Japan cannot accommodate: an invitation to visit the cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The bomb at Hiroshima dropped on Aug. 6, 1945, killed an estimated 140,000 people. Nagasaki was bombed three days later, killing about 80,000. Six days after that, World War II ended with Japan's unconditional surrender.
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kan Obama zo'n verzoek weigeren ? 't is toch al vierenzestig jaar geleden ?
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( In Hiroshima, the invitation to Obama will remain open, but he is hardly alone in not finding the time to accept it. According to the city's peace promotion department, no sitting head of state from any nation with nuclear weapons has visited the memorial, which lists the names of the dead.
Special correspondent Akiko Yamamoto contributed to this report. )