Shinzo Abe, left, will become the first Japanese Prime Minister to visit Pearl Harbor when he travels to Hawaii for a final summit with outgoing US president Barack Obama, right
Wall Street Journal: Shinzo Abe to Become First Japanese Leader to Visit Pearl Harbor
Leader will pay tribute to the victims of the Japanese attack on Hawaii in December 1941
TOKYO—Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he would visit Pearl Harbor in late December to pay tribute to the victims of the Japanese attack there 75 years ago, becoming the first Japanese leader to do so.
The visit is in some ways a mirror image of one by U.S. President Barack Obama in May to Hiroshima, which was the first by a U.S. president to the site of the atomic bombing nine days before the end of World War II.
Mr. Abe will visit the place where the war between the U.S. and Japan began. On Dec. 7, 1941, local time—a “a date which will live in infamy,” in the words of President Franklin D. Roosevelt—a Japanese strike force staged a surprise attack on the Pearl Harbor naval base in
what was then the U.S. territory of Hawaii, sinking the USS Arizona and costing 2,403 American lives.
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WNU Editor: This visit is long overdue by a Japanese leader .... way long overdue.
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Japanese Leader Abe to Visit Pearl Harbor With Obama -- AP
Abe to make first Pearl Harbor visit by Japan leader -- AFP
Japanese Prime Minister to Make Historic First Visit Pearl Harbor -- ABC news
Japanese leader to visit Pearl Harbor -- The Hill
Japanese prime minister plans landmark visit to Pearl Harbor -- Washington Post
Japan PM to visit Pearl Harbor with Barack Obama -- The Guardian
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Abe to become first Japanese leader to visit Pearl Harbor -- DW
Read more ....
WNU Editor: This visit is long overdue by a Japanese leader .... way long overdue.
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Abe to make first Pearl Harbor visit by Japan leader -- AFP
Japanese Prime Minister to Make Historic First Visit Pearl Harbor -- ABC news
Japanese leader to visit Pearl Harbor -- The Hill
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