In a first, Japanese PM Shinzo Abe visits Pearl Harbor memorial in Hawaii
Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe became the first Japanese prime minister to visit the memorial that honours sailors and Marines killed in the attack on Pearl Harbour.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe laid wreaths at various cemeteries and memorials ahead of a visit on Tuesday to the site of the 1941 bombing that plunged the United States into World War II.(AP)
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Abe landed at Joint Base Pearl Harbour-Hickam and then headed to National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, where he laid a wreath.(AP)
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He later visited a nearby memorial for nine boys and men who died when a US Navy submarine collided with a Japanese fishing vessel in 2001. At the Ehime Maru Memorial, he again laid a wreath and bowed his head. (AP)
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Japan’s former leader Shigeru Yoshida went to Pearl Harbour six years after the country’s World War II surrender, but that was before the USS Arizona Memorial was built.(AP)
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The importance of the visit may be mostly symbolic for two countries that, in a remarkable transformation, have grown into close allies in the decades since they faced off in brutal conflict. (AP)
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The visit is significant that it took more than 70 years for US-Japanese relations to get to this point.(AP)
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The visit comes six months after Obama became the first sitting American president to visit Hiroshima for victims of the US atomic bombing of that city at the end of the same war.(AP)
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