John Kerry Makes Historic Visit To Hiroshima

Secretary of State John Kerry placed a wreath at the atomic bomb memorial in Hiroshima, Japan, today. He described the experience as gut-wrenching.

Kerry is the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Hiroshima, where 140,000 people died when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb in August 1945. That, plus the bomb a few days later at Nagasaki, led to the Japanese surrender and the end of World War II.

Here & Now host Peter O’Dowd speaks with Shihoko Goto from the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Asia Program, about the significance of Kerry’s visit.

Guest

• Shihoko Goto, senior associate for Northeast Asia at the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Asia Program. She tweets @gotoeastasia.

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