By Li Ruoyu

June 1, 2016

"US President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Hiroshima, site of the world's first atomic bomb attack, on Friday - a trip that Japanese media is lauding as 'historic.'

Japan has eagerly awaited this long hoped-for first visit. In the autumn of 2009, then US ambassador to Japan John Victor Roos paid a private visit to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park soon after he assumed the post. Roos became the first US ambassador to attend the peace memorial ceremony in Hiroshima on August 6, 2010 and the commemoration ceremony of the atomic bombing in Nagasaki on August 9, 2012. These visits paved the way for the Hiroshima trips by US Secretary of State John Kerry as well as Obama."

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