Japanese Leader Will Visit Visit Pearl Harbor

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe “will become the first sitting Japanese leader to visit Pearl Harbor, he said Monday, making a symbolic visit this month to the site of the Japanese attack 75 years ago that pulled a stunned United States into World War II,” the New York Times reports.

“Mr. Abe said in a televised news conference that he would travel to the American naval base with President Obama during a trip to Hawaii on Dec. 26 and 27. By visiting Pearl Harbor, Mr. Abe will in effect be reciprocating a trip earlier this year by Mr. Obama to the Japanese city of Hiroshima, where the United States dropped a nuclear bomb at the end of the war with Japan in 1945.”