Japanese Prime Minister Will Not Apologize During Visit to Pearl Harbor
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will pay tribute to those killed in the war but will not apologise, when he becomes the first Japanese leader to visit Pearl Harbor this month.
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Mr. Obama (left) and Mr. Abe, preparing to lay a wreath at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in May. Photo: Reuters |
"The purpose of the upcoming visit is to commemorate the war dead, not to apologize," AFP quoted Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga as saying in Tokyo yesterday.
"The visit will be an opportunity to show future generations that we are determined not to repeat the horror and pain of war again, as well as an opportunity to demonstrate reconciliation between Japan and the United States," Suga added.
Mr. Abe will travel to Hawaii on December 26-27 and pay tribute to those who died in the 1941 surprise attack by the Japanese on the U.S. naval base, which sparked World War II in the Pacific. More than 2,400 U.S. soldiers and civilians were killed in the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
The visit comes after Barack Obama visited Hiroshima in May, becoming the first sitting US president to visit the city. There, Obama spoke of the pain of the victims but did not apologise for the world's first atomic bomb.According to VNE
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