Ex-Hiroshima mayor hopes Obama will listen to A-bomb survivors

Ex-Hiroshima mayor hopes Obama will listen to A-bomb survivors

Tadatoshi Akiba, who served as mayor of Hiroshima for 12 years through 2011, holds a press conference in Tokyo on May 23, 2016. Akiba expressed his hope that U.S. President Barack Obama would listen to survivors' stories during his visit later in the week to the western Japan city that was devastated by a U.S. atomic bomb in the late stages of World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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