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Japan’s PM Shinzo Abe seeks reconciliation with US at Pearl Harbour

In a landmark moment, the Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe and President of the United States Barack Obama visited Pearl Harbor in Hawaii to offer condolences to the victims of the surprise Japanese bombing on US naval base 75 years ago.
●    The meeting of the two leaders at the memorial site was another move towards reconciliation.
●    Both the leaders used the ceremony to encourage their citizens to reconcile and move forward.  
●    Though Abe did not apologise for the attack, he did offer his most sincere and everlasting condolences to the victims and stated that Japan had taken a solemn vow to never wage a war ever again. 
●    Abe also visited the USS Arizona Memorial, which was built in 1962 in the memory of the American sailors and Marines who lay buried in the wreckage of the battleship, sunk by the Japanese during the attack. 
●    Both Abe and Obama sought to guide their citizens to embrace reconciliation and remembrance.
●    Though Abe is not the first Japanese Prime Minister to visit the historic site, he is the first to do so with a US President and the first one to visit Arizona Memorial.


 

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