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 Prime Minister to Make Historic First Visit Pearl Harbor -- ABC news
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Japanese prime minister plans landmark visit to Pearl Harbor -- Washington Post
Japan PM to visit Pearl Harbor with Barack Obama -- The Guardian
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Will Become First Japanese Leader To Visit Pearl Harbor -- NPR
Abe to become first Japanese leader to visit Pearl Harbor -- DW
6 comments:
The trip is overdue by a Japanese leader. True.
Obama could have done this during his year long apology tour.
He has 46 days to go and now he does this?
Too little too late.
While the visit is likely long overdue, there will very likely be a huge political cost to any Japanese leader back home in Japan for doing something like this as they are still quite bitter over WWII. As such, not Japanese leader would even think of doing something like this UNLESS they were given something by the Americans that they simply could not refuse. I wonder what strategic American interests the American leadership sacrificed to get the Japanese leader to do this.
I'm sure we will find out in a few days. I'm sure the Japanese and others are not going to be able to resist the urge to gloat.
No Political Weasels should be allowed anywhere near Pearl on the 7th.
Why should Obama go to pearl harbor for the day when Japan had not done so all these years? Only those who dislike O.make up nonsense everytime he does not do what they want him to do but ignore him when he does something he does do that they like.
Political weasels got us into the war--on both sides--so why, twn, should they not be allowed to go now? should some shoe salesman go to represent America?
What is there to like about Obama? Seriously?
That he is a good father to Malia and Sasha?
Hitler was good to his German Shepherd, Blondi.
Really bad people can be nice to their close family and inner circle.
So barring that what is there to like about Obama?
- Was it his "The police acted stupidly" remark?
- His handling of Baltimore.
- His labeling Fort Hood work place violence? You had better not go there.
"White House says World War II veterans who feel 'personally embittered' by Japan's unprovoked attack should set aside their feelings "
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4001384/Japan-s-Prime-Minister-announces-historic-visit-Pearl-Harbor-mark-75th-anniversary-attack-alongside-Obama.html
Really?
1) The Japanese were great to work with in Japan on base.
2) Off base there is not a problem
3) I do have a problem with ultra-nationalists or the 'bomb' people.
4) The people of this generation are not responsible for what the people did in the 1930s & 1940s.
5) If there is any animosity, it is directed at people not acknowledging the unprovoked war or the war crimes. People have a right to be angry about that.
In conclusion once again, the children at the White House are off base, without remorse and senseless.
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