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International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, right, speaks to journalists after meeting Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga at the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo on July 14. (Pool Photo via AP)
Many residents of Hiroshima welcome attention from abroad, which IOC President Thomas Bach will bring when he visits on Friday. The western Japanese city has been in the forefront of the world peace movement and a campaigner for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
But Bach will also bring political baggage as will his vice president John Coates when he visits Nagasaki the same day that is largely unwelcome in two cities viewed as sacred by many Japanese. ....

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