FEATURE: Books on Obama's Hiroshima speech seeing good sales

FEATURE: Books on Obama's Hiroshima speech seeing good sales

Photo taken Aug. 3, 2016, shows books about U.S. President Barack Obama's speech in Hiroshima displayed at a Tokyo bookstore. The books have a parallel Japanese translation for his English speech. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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