A-bomb museum sees record visitors in FY 2016 on Obama visit

A-bomb museum sees record visitors in FY 2016 on Obama visit

Visitors look at an exhibit inside the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in the western Japanese city of Hiroshima in this file photo taken Feb. 24, 2017. The museum attracted a record 1.74 million visitors in the year that ended in March 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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