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FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2009 file photo, a family releases a paper lantern in the

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2009 file photo, a family releases a paper lantern in the Motoyasu River with the backdrop of the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, western Japan as the city marked the 64th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack. Hopes are growing in Japan that Barack Obama will become the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima or Nagasaki, the only two cities ever devastated by atomic bombs. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)