Prior to U.S. President Barack Obama's recent Asian visit, many of his critics back home were already mocking the trip, calling it an "apology tour."
Still, if traveling to Hiroshima, a city that was devastated by a U.S. atomic bomb in the waning days of World War II, and a stopover in Vietnam for talks to further relations with another one-time enemy nation were not emotionally charged enough, Obama was forced to deal with a more recent ordeal.
He had to address the alleged rape and murder of a 20-year-old Japanese woman by a U.S. base worker and former marine in Okinawa.