International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach will visit Hiroshima on Friday, the municipal government said Tuesday, despite growing calls to cancel what critics call a politically motivated visit to the atomic-bombed city in western Japan.Bach, who is already in Tokyo for the Olympics beginning in just over a week, is set to visit the Peace Memorial Park, dedicated to the victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing, and lay flowers at the cenotaph there. His trip coincides with the starting day of an Olympic truce adopted by the United Nations.He is also scheduled to take a tour of the Hir…READ FULL ARTICLE
