Inside Story - US President Barack Obama visits Hiroshima

Barack Obama made history on Friday when he became the first sitting US president to visit the memorial site at Hiroshima.

That's one of the sites where the US dropped an atomic bomb during the final stage of the second world war.

Although President Obama did not offer an official apology, Japan's prime minister says this moment opens a new chapter between the two countries.

So what is that new chapter? And what does that mean for the rest of Asia?

Presenter: Martine Dennis

Guests:

Jia Xiudong - Senior Research Fellow at China Institute of International Studies China Public Policy Specialist International Relations Researcher

Yoshiki Mine - Former Director General, International Relations, Japanese Ministry of Defence, Permanent Representative of the Japan at the Conference on Disarmament, former chief representative of Japan for the Normalisation Negotiations with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Research Director at the Canon Institute for Global Studies

Taku Tamaki - Lecturer in International Relations, research fellow at the Institute of Asian Cultural Studies, Tokyo and Asia-Pacific Specialist

[harrybobotis]

notice the symbolic Hiroshima Memorial it's basically an arch outline of a pyramid with the all seeing eye / light above it much like the Statue of Liberty and also the torch that was placed above where Princess Diana was assassinated underneath in the Paris tunnel notice also the two white pyramids where President Obama places his own I'm spiritually dead white with his name it looks like his own funeral and it's very symbolic and interesting that he's the first u.s. president to do this this is the mark of the acceleration of the New World Order end of times just saying