TOBA, MIE PREF. – Ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to Hiroshima on Friday, the question of whether he will take the opportunity to chat with aging hibakusha during a tour of the memorial park near ground zero is in focus.
Obama will fly to Hiroshima after attending the two-day summit of the Group of Seven industrialized nations in Mie Prefecture to wrap up an Asian tour that also took him to Vietnam.
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