Hiroshima, Nagasaki mayors call for Obama to visit

Hiroshima, Nagasaki mayors call for Obama to visit

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (R) and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue answer reporters' questions in Tokyo on Nov. 14, 2012, after meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos at the U.S. Embassy. They handed Roos a letter addressed to recently reelected U.S. President Barack Obama, calling for Obama to visit the cities that suffered atomic bombings in World War II.

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