Ken Hartle, who as a navy diver during World War II had the grim task of retrieving bodies from ships sunk by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 103. Hartle died Tuesday afternoon at an Escondido, California, center for people with Alzheimer's ...
If Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meant what he said about the "power of reconciliation" on his Dec. 27 visit to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, he should sack Defense Minister Tomomi Inada who visited Yasukuni Shrine two days later. If he does nothing, then his ...
Using images from World War II, Publisher Takarajimasha Inc. on Thursday placed an ad in five major Japanese newspapers calling for world peace. The two-page ads used full-page photos of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Japan's 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor with ...
U.S. officials have reacted negatively to Defense Minister Tomomi Inada's visit Thursday to a controversial war-linked shrine just after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Pearl Harbor with U.S. President Barack Obama. "We continue to emphasize the importance of approaching historical legacy issues in a ...
A Hawaiian newspaper on Wednesday praised Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to the symbolic site of Japan's 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor with U.S. President Barack Obama. Citing Abe's Tuesday visit to the USS Arizona Memorial, the first by a sitting Japanese prime minister, the ...
Two mavens say the speeches of Abe and Obama contain a message for the incoming leader about the Japan-U.S. relationship.
Abe’s historic visit to Hawaii wraps up with addresses from himself and U.S. President Barack Obama.
The following is the full text of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's address Tuesday at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, following a summit with U.S. President Barack Obama and a visit to the USS Arizona Memorial. President Obama, Commander Harris, ladies and gentlemen, and all American citizens, I stand ...
Following is the full text of a speech delivered by U.S. President Barack Obama at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Tuesday. Prime Minister Abe, on behalf of the American people, thank you for your gracious words. Thank you for your presence here today — an ...
Now that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has visited Pearl Harbor with U.S. President Barack Obama in a show of reconciliation between the two World War II foes, a U.S.-based Chinese scholar has suggested that Abe take a step further to achieve rapprochement with China ...
China on Tuesday poured cold water on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Pearl Harbor, saying Japan must reconcile with parts of Asia victimized by its wartime aggression if it wants to put that history behind it and move forward. "I'm afraid that only Japan ...
Upon returning to power in 2012, Abe has demonstrated his pragmatism to governance numerous times by adopting positions that both appeal to, but also upset his conservative base.
