As it happened, he was the first American diplomat to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki officially.

He was one of the first foreigners to visit Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was dropped, and wrote his thoughts in his book Warrior without Weapons.

Just two months later, Mr. Oe visited Hiroshima and spoke with survivors of the atomic bombing.

To celebrate Valentine's Day in 2002, she said, she took her husband to Tokyo but then insisted that they visit Hiroshima.

"You should visit Hiroshima some day, sir."

While many world leaders have visited Hiroshima over the years, she is the highest-ever sitting U.S. official to pay her respects.

I was one of the first American soldiers to visit Hiroshima after its destruction by the atomic bomb 56 years ago today.

In 1945 he became one of the first Americans to visit Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was dropped.

In its place, Guevara stated that he would instead visit Hiroshima, where the American military had detonated an atom-bomb 14 years earlier.

He also was on one to the first ships to enter Japan following the dropping of the atom bombs when he visited Hiroshima.