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    AFP - US President Barack Obama is willing to visit the nuclear-bombed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki while in office but won't go there during a Japan trip this week, he said in an NHK TV interview Tuesday. "The memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are etched in the minds of the world, and I would be honoured to have the opportunity to visit those cities at some point during my presidency" Obama said in an exclusive interview. Full Article at France 24
    The memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are etched in the minds of the world, and I would be honoured to have the opportunity to visit those cities at some point during my presidency
    Barack Obama – Barack Obama SOURCE: France 24 3 weeks ago
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  1. Prime Minister Hatoyama was leading a movement of change in Japan that really was unprecedented. It was a political earthquake there
    Barack Obama – Barack Obama SOURCE: France 24 3 weeks ago

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