President Barack Obama visited Hiroshima and laid a wreath at the arch memorial built to remember the dead and injured. Obama is the first American president to visit Hiroshima while in office. He told people that death fell from the sky and the world was changed. He then met briefly with two survivors, Sunao Tsuboi and Shigeaki Mori. He talked about the horrors of war and the need to work toward a world without nuclear weapons. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that this tragedy must not be repeated again we should realize a world free of nuclear weapons. Some Americans objected to Obama’s visit to Hiroshima because they thought that his visit was disrespectful to U.S. veterans who fought in the war. However, 70 percent of Japanese wanted Obama to visit Hiroshima. The atomic bombs led to two things. First, they killed a lot of people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Secondly, the bombings brought an end to the Second World War. Since Japan surrendered less than two weeks after the attacks, Japan has developed with the help of the United States.
I think that it is very significant for the incumbent president of the United States to visit Hiroshima. Certainly, he did not make a formal apology to Japanese for dropping an atomic bomb, but visiting Hiroshima for its own sake is very important. In the matter of the evaluation of the bombings, I agreed to dropping an atomic bomb. There are two reasons. Firstly, if the United States did not drop an atomic bomb, Japan did not dicide to surrender lengthily. So, there may be more victims than now. Lastly, people will not use an atomic bomb since the end of the Second World War. Ironically people do not understand a fear of nuclear weapons without using them. I want Obama to make an effort to realize a world without nuclear weapons after he step down from the president.