Abe Answers Obama’s Hiroshima Visit With Pearl Harbor Trip
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Japan's Shinzo Abe Visits Pearl Harbor Memorial
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Pearl Harbor on Tuesday, the first Japanese leader in decades to tour the site of the surprise attack that drew the U.S. into World War II.
Abe did not apologize for Japan’s 1941 attack, which killed more than 2,000 Americans and temporarily crippled the U.S. Pacific fleet. But his visit was cast as a gesture of reconciliation matching President Barack Obama’s trip to Hiroshima earlier in the year, when the American president likewise stopped short of apologizing for the use of an atomic bomb on the city.