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    Hiroshima attack's last survivors watch as Biden pays tribute, but makes no apologies

    by Courtney Subramanian, Los Angeles Times May 19, 2023 5 minutes
    From left to right: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, France's President Emmanuel Macron, Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, US President Joe Biden and Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visit the Peace Memorial Park as part of the G7 Leaders' Summit in Hiroshima on May 19, 2023.

    HIROSHIMA, Japan — The patter of rain had subsided on a gray Friday morning as President Joe Biden and other Group of 7 leaders arrived at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, the first of two sites where American planes dropped atomic bombs in August 1945, laying waste to two Japanese cities and bringing an end to World War II.

    Tanaka Satoshi, a 79-year-old "hibakusha," or survivor of the atomic bombings, watched closely on television. Biden, the leader of the country that carried out the world's first nuclear attack, stood in front of the Cenotaph, a memorial shaped to resemble a Japanese dwelling. The arched monument is designed to metaphorically shelter the estimated 140,000 people who perished in the Hiroshima blast or died from the resulting fires and radiation.

    After Biden and his foreign counterparts placed wreaths of white flowers at the

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