Category: Japan
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The Hiroshima Peace Memorial
On Tuesday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi became the highest-ranking U.S. official to ever visit the A-bomb Memorial in Hiroshima. I am intensely proud of Speaker Pelosi – sad only that a sitting U.S. president has never made that visit, and hopeful that one soon will. … I visited the memorial in early 2002.
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Puttin’ on the Ritz
The centerpiece of the new Tokyo Midtown is the Ritz Carlton hotel, quite an impressive site rising stark and steely from a bed of beautifully sculpted gardens.