South Korea and China reacted guardedly to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Pearl Harbor, with both saying Japan should try harder to reconcile with the countries it victimized before and during World War II. A South Korean Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday that Japan ...
The Japan Times newsroom selected these national news stories as the most important of 2016. 1. A president in Hiroshima: U.S. President Barack Obama made a historic and emotional visit to Hiroshima on May 27. He was the first sitting U.S. president to go to ...
Abe's Pearl Harbor visit hailed in Japan, but some question lack of apology
Japanese war survivors on Wednesday welcomed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Pearl Harbor to offer condolences for those who died in the 1941 surprise attack there, but some questioned the lack of an apology or mention of the state's responsibility for pursuing war. Kikuyo ...
In Hawaii, Abe looks to remember war, reinforce U.S. relationship
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Hawaii Monday morning local time for a two-day visit that appears to be as much about shoring up his credentials as a statesman and trying to address concerns about the future of U.S.-Japan relations under Donald Trump as ...
Origami crane made by A-bomb victim Sadako Sasaki on display at USS Arizona memorial
As a symbol of reconciliation between the United States and Japan, a paper crane made by Sadako Sasaki, an atomic bomb victim from Hiroshima, is on display at the visitor center at the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where Prime Minister Shinzo ...
Abe's Pearl Harbor visit will do little to dispel theories persisting over the 1941 attack
The die-hard conspiracy theories on Pearl Harbor will continue to stir interest on both sides of the Pacific regardless of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit.
China held a memorial ceremony Tuesday for victims of the 1937 massacre committed by Japanese troops in Nanjing, as the two countries have been pushing to improve relations overshadowed for years by territorial and wartime issues. This year's state commemoration took place two weeks before ...
Abe may visit Honolulu memorial for Ehime Maru victims during Pearl Harbor trip
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is considering visiting a monument dedicated to the victims of a 2001 collision between a Japanese fisheries school training boat and a U.S. submarine off Hawaii when he goes to Pearl Harbor this month, according to Japan-U.S. diplomatic sources. Abe, who ...
If Shinzo Abe's visit to Pearl Harbor matters as a symbolic gesture of reconciliation with the U.S., he should consider similar steps with Japan's Asian neighbors.
