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A Japanese family releases a paper lantern in Hiroshima to mark the 64th anniversary in August this year of the world's first atomic bomb attack

Hiroshima hails Barack, but he's too busy to visit

It was a speech Tsutomu Yamaguchi had waited 64 years to hear. Watching television at home in Hiroshima in April, one of Japan's most famous A-bomb survivors heard an American president call for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

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