Jeffrey Hornung, Security and Foreign Affairs fellow at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA, in Washington, D.C, said any remarks by Obama at Hiroshima could be open to misinterpretation and spark controversy.
“If Obama chooses to make a speech while visiting … he would be in danger of his words being misinterpreted, politicized, and over-analyzed as pundits debate what he said, what he should have said, and what he did not say,” Hornung said in an interview with the Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun last month.


japan netizen comments:
kuh *****
I do not expect the apology.
But I pray so that Obama feels sorrow in Hiroshima.

yas *****
The apology is not necessary. Make an effort not to make a nucleus in the future.

ove *****
Obama, Please do not mind in Korea and China.
Thank you only by coming. Please feel something.

********
It has a meaning that Obama comes to Hiroshima.

sak *****
Folly of the war and misfortune of the indiscriminate bombing.
The nuclear weapon is not fair at all.

dog *****
The apology is not necessary.
Each country leader wants you to recognize the brutality of the A-bomb.

ばこう
Japan does not demand an apology from the United States.
Because Japan is different from Korea.

 → lov*****
I am a being bombed victim. I do not forgive the United States.

 → ほほう
zainiti the 3rd ♪

ats *****
However, it does not have any problem. As Obama comes to Hiroshima, his thought changes

hry *****
The United States does not need to apologize. However, make condolences.

::: ro2 *****
Obama should go to Nagasaki.
US netizen comments:

Bald Knobber
If Barry had been president in 1945, we wouldn't be having this discussion now. We would have just surrendered.

Thomas J. Ritz ·Metropolitan State University of Denver
Did anyone expect anything else from this President? The apology tour from beginning to end. Well here is my apology..... I am sorry this sack of dung represents the United States of America. His record of incompetence speaks for itself.
Robert Skillstad
President who enabled World War III by lifting sanctions against Iran that leads to development of nuclear weapons. Figures he would visit nuclear war past to see his nuclear war future.

Bill Lancaster ·Bryan, Texas
Those who criticize the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are being incredibly short sighted. Most military experts believe that a land invasion of Japan would have cost a least a half million lives. Japan's refusal to surrender both before and after Hiroshima gave Truman really no choce but to use the atomic bomb. If Japan orGgermany would have had it they wouldn't have hesitated to use it against the Allies for a single instant. And as for Japan to become more critical over the years of the United States decision to drop the bomb, that is a true example of selective memory. Japan slaughtered hundreds of thousands of civilians in their murderous campaingn against China (what they did in Nanking was as barbaric as anyting that has occurred in the history of the world). Thousands more died at their hands in the Phillipines and Burma. Yes, obviously the Japanese people suffered the most from the use of nuclear weapons in WWII, but as horrific as those events were, they pale in comparsion to the mass murders routinely committed by the Japanese Imperial Army in the 1930's and 40's.

Mubashir Cheema ·Software Engineer at Sparco Media
The debate over nuclear strike on Japan during World War II will probably never die down. But both countries are very different from what they were in 1945. If Obama's visit to Hiroshima helps bring some closure to the old wounds, and brings the two nations closer together, I for one welcome it.

Joe Casepack
If the idiot Obama was President in 1941 he would've called Pearl Harbor an "isolated attack by a few rogue individuals" and would never have blamed Japan for it.
And in the mean time he has teed up World War 3 while pretending Bush did it.
2017 can't come fast enough.
Fred Lander · Works at Nielsen Media Research
The Japs should be apologizing to the world for what they did to China, Korea and the United States.
The killed millions and it took them 50 years to acknowledge what they did.
Our mistake was that we didn't drop A bombs on Japan several years sooner. It would have saved countless lives!

Pete Wagner·Aloft at Wagtime Jungle
Sad how Americans justify the killing and maiming of innocent women and children to bring down governments. At that point, Japan had lost their entire Navy and were no threat.

 →Rich Farrell·Rider University
Not to sure where you studied history and in particular the pacific WWII theatre. A land invasion would have cost close to a million additional lives. Japan during this time was a savage nation who inflicted war on their neighbors and the US. They brualized not only our soldiers but Chinese citizens. The entire populace was prepared to fight to the end.

 →Pete Wagner·Aloft at Wagtime Jungle
Rich Farrell We know where you studied history. You see, history is a very powerful tool. Have you been to Japan? Savage better describes an American.

Kevin Kirby
Will Obama visit Fukashima and drink filtered water?

Gary Carney·Missouri State University
Most likely Obama intends it to be viewed as an apology

Tim Webb
They need to apologize for a lot of things starting with Pearl Harbor. A "Thank You" is in order for our protecting them from theChinese which has allowed them to grow their economy. Sad to say but true, we are all better off if Obama is playing golf.

Peter Siano Sr.·Asbury Park High School
The President on his "apology Tour" should visit Bataan, The Phillippine prison camps,where Japan committed the most horrorible atrocities on our troops. The Tour in Japan is a blatant act of apology, and cannot be spun any other way.As far as John Kerry stating to visit as "gut wrenching" as possible,it fits in with his slimey actions on what he did in Nam,when he tossed his medals away.