Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi laid a wreath during the ceremony in Hiroshima and was the only elected U.S. official among more than 200 dignitaries and representatives present.

The Japanese city, on which America dropped the first atomic bomb near the end of World War II, is commemorating the ...

Just three months after the end of the war in Europe, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.