More than seven decades after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, President Barack Obama made history today after he landed in the city of Hiroshima and walked along his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe.
The US President paid tribute to the victims of world’s first nuclear attack during his visit and laid wreaths at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Friday.
Obama has become the first US sitting president to visit the Japanese city since the attack that took place on 6 August 1945. 140,000 people were killed in the attack.
Addressing a crowd gathered at the occasion, Obama said, “71 years ago, death fell from the sky and the world was changed.” Obama used the occasion to call for a world without nuclear arms.
The visit marks the beginning of a new chapter in US-Japan relations and promises reconciliation between the two countries.
In another first during March this year, President Obama had paid a visit to Cuba becoming the first American president to visit the communist country in nearly a century.
