US Hiroshima visit

The most senior US politician to visit a Hiroshima memorial attended a ceremony there on the anniversary of Japan’s surrender in the Second World War. Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, laid flowers at Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park during a Group of Eight (G8) meeting. The US dropped the atomic bomb on the city on August 6th, 1945; Japan signed a formal surrender on September 2nd. After the vice-president, Pelosi’s position is next in the Presidential line of succession; in 1984 ex-President Jimmy Carter visited the memorial in an unofficial capacity.