Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Has No Plans To Go To Pearl Harbour

Politico: Japanese PM Abe: No plans to go to Pearl Harbor

President Barack Obama is going to Hiroshima this week, but his Japanese counterpart has no plans to visit Pearl Harbor as a reciprocal gesture.

Although Obama will visit the Hiroshima on Friday becoming the first sitting commander in chief to do so more than seven decades after a nuclear bomb destroyed the city in an attempt to end World War II, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Wednesday during a joint press conference in Shima, Japan, that a trip to the Hawaiian harbor is not currently planned.

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Update: Obama looks to Hiroshima visit; Abe won’t go to Pearl Harbor -- Washington Post/AP

WNU Editor: Japanese PM Abe is not interested in going to Pearl Harbour .... his focus (and this is who he is) is to bring the G7 leaders to this place .... G7 in Japan: concern over world leaders' tour of nationalistic shrine (The Guardian).