U.S. envoy Roos to visit Nagasaki on Sept. 26: city gov’t
Sep. 13, 2010
U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos will visit the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum and other places during a trip to the city on Sept. 26, the Nagasaki city government said Friday.
It will be Roos' first visit to the city, which was hit by an atomic bomb dropped by the United States during World War II, since he assumed his post in August last year.
According to the city government and the Japan-America Society of Nagasaki, Roos will attend an event to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the association and visit Nagasaki Peace Park as well as the museum.
In Nagasaki, atomic-bomb survivors, known as ''hibakusha,'' expressed expectations that the U.S. ambassador will see the realities of the terrible devastation wreaked by the atomic bombing and convey to the world their hope that Nagasaki will be the last city to suffer such an attack.
Roos attended a ceremony on Aug. 6 to mark the 65th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, becoming the first U.S. representative to do so. But he skipped a similar memorial service on Aug. 9 in Nagasaki, which was hit by an atomic bomb three days after Hiroshima, citing scheduling conflicts.
The U.S. Embassy, however, said later that Roos had made a phone call to Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue before the service and expressed his hope to visit the southwestern Japan city in the future.
Taue said in a news conference in August, ''(The U.S. ambassador's) taking a step forward to visit Hiroshima means a great deal and we hope he will visit Nagasaki next time.''
(Distributed by Kyodo News on Sept. 10, 2010)
It will be Roos' first visit to the city, which was hit by an atomic bomb dropped by the United States during World War II, since he assumed his post in August last year.
According to the city government and the Japan-America Society of Nagasaki, Roos will attend an event to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the association and visit Nagasaki Peace Park as well as the museum.
In Nagasaki, atomic-bomb survivors, known as ''hibakusha,'' expressed expectations that the U.S. ambassador will see the realities of the terrible devastation wreaked by the atomic bombing and convey to the world their hope that Nagasaki will be the last city to suffer such an attack.
Roos attended a ceremony on Aug. 6 to mark the 65th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, becoming the first U.S. representative to do so. But he skipped a similar memorial service on Aug. 9 in Nagasaki, which was hit by an atomic bomb three days after Hiroshima, citing scheduling conflicts.
The U.S. Embassy, however, said later that Roos had made a phone call to Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue before the service and expressed his hope to visit the southwestern Japan city in the future.
Taue said in a news conference in August, ''(The U.S. ambassador's) taking a step forward to visit Hiroshima means a great deal and we hope he will visit Nagasaki next time.''
(Distributed by Kyodo News on Sept. 10, 2010)
