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Fox & Friends: We Should Have Clarified That Our Report On Obama Apologizing To Japan Was False

Jillian Rayfield | October 14, 2011, 2:45PM

Which is harder to believe -- that Fox News got something wrong or that they apologized for it?

Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy made a statement on the show on Friday to clarify that the show's earlier report that President Obama had planned to apologize to Japan for Hiroshima was, in fact, not true.

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Topics: Barack Obama, Fox News, Fox and Friends, Hiroshima, Japan, Steve Doocy

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Wikileaks: Japan To Obama: Don't Apologize For Hiroshima

Brian Fung | October 13, 2011, 5:00AM

The Japanese government urged the Obama administration in 2009 not to apologize for the American nuclear attack on Hiroshima during World War II, according to a secret diplomatic cable published by Wikileaks last month.

Vice Foreign Minister Mitoji Yabunaka told American diplomats ahead of a presidential trip to Japan that an American apology would be a "non-starter" and that a simple visit to Hiroshima -- "without fanfare" -- would be sufficiently symbolic.

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Topics: Barack Obama, Hiroshima, Wikileaks