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Politics › Pelosi to visit Hiroshima for meeting, flower tributes at A-bomb monument

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi will travel to Hiroshima to participate in a Group of Eight lower house chiefs' meeting and to offer… ...full story at Japan Today

from Japan Today on Sat, Jul 26 2008

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