Continued from December 29, 2016.
The ceremony was conceived as an affirmation of the close relations that now exist between the two countries.
Said Prime Minister Abe as he spoke to Pearl Harbor survivors: "Ours is an alliance of hope that will lead us to the future."
Abe became the first Japanese prime minister to make a highly publicized visit to the USS Arizona Memorial, though it is believed that three of his predecessors are thought to have quietly visited Pearl Harbor. His visit comes after President Obama's visit in May to Hiroshima, site of one of the two nuclear attacks that helped end the war in 1945.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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