Kennedy Attends Hiroshima Ceremony 36 Years After First Visit
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U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy today attended a memorial ceremony for victims of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, returning to a city she visited in 1978 with her uncle, then Senator Edward Kennedy.
Kennedy, 56, wore a plastic raincoat and was seated among dignitaries including Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the ceremony, NHK public television showed. The commemoration is held every year to honor the 140,000 people killed in the 1945 U.S. nuclear attack on the city.