美國駐日大使首次出席二個原爆和平紀念儀式

Recently the NHK News reported the following:
今月９日に行われる長崎市の平和祈念式典に、アメリカ政府を代表してズムワルト駐日首席公使が出席することが分かりました。ズムワルト駐日首席公使は、６日、広島市の式典にも、出席することになっていますが、長崎市の式典に出席するのは初めてです。
関係者によりますと、アメリカのズムワルト駐日首席公使は臨時代理大使として、今月９日に長崎市で行われる平和祈念式典に出席し、犠牲者を追悼するということです。アメリカ政府側から５日、式典の関係者に連絡があったということで、原爆を投下したアメリカ政府の代表が長崎市の式典に出席するのは初めてです。去年はルース駐日大使が広島市の平和記念式典に初めて出席しましたが、長崎市の式典にはスケジュールの都合がつかなかったとして出席せず、後日長崎市を訪れ、原爆落下中心地に献花して犠牲者を悼みました。ズムワルト駐日首席公使は、６日、広島市で行われる平和記念式典にも出席することになっており、アメリカ政府の代表が初めて広島と長崎の両方の式典に出席することになりました。長崎市の黒川智夫原爆被爆対策部長は「出席するのであれば長崎の被害の実情をしっかり見てもらいたい」と話しています。
(試譯文)
It had been understood that America's chief minister to Japan J.P. Zumwait would attend the peace memorial ceremony at Nagasaki City on the ninth this month on behalf of the US. Although chief minister Zumwait had attended the ceremony at Hiroshima City on the 6th, supposedly it would be the first time to attend the ceremony at Nagasaki City.
According to people related to the matter, America's chief minister to Japan Zumwait, as Charge d'Affaires ad interim, would attend the peace memorial ceremony held in Nagasaki City on the ninth this month to mourn the victims. Parties connected to the ceremony had the report from the American government on the fifth that a representative of the US, the country that had dropped the atomic bomb would attend the ceremony of Nagasaki City for the first time.
Last year although Ruth the Ambassador to Japan attended the Peace Memorial Ceremony at Hiroshima City for the first time, he did not attend the ceremony in Nagasaki City because it was not able to arrange the schedule; he later visited Nagasaki, and offered flowers at the atomic bomb dropping location to mourn the dead. As Zumwait the chief minister to Japan had attended the Peace Memorial Ceremony held in Hiroshima City on the sixth, it would be the first time for a representative of the US to attend both the Hiroshima and the Nagasaki ceremonies. Kurokawa Tomoo the atomic bomb radiation exposure measures director in Nagasaki City said "want him to see fully the actual damage of Nagasaki if he attends".

It is interesting to note that there is some small attitude changes in the American regarding this WWII matter.