Japanese Government Nixed Idea of Obama Visiting, Apologizing for, Hiroshima*In September 2009, US Ambassador to Japan John Roos reported to the Obama administration that the Japanese government did not think it was a good idea for President Obama to visit Hiroshima to apologize for the US having dropped an atomic bomb on that city, a secret cable published by Wikileaks revealed. Roos wrote the cable after his August meeting with Vice Foreign Minister Mitoji Yabunaka, repo
