5 August 2016, 14:50 GMT
TOKYO (Sputnik) — Abe is expected to fly to Hawaii on December 26 for a two-day visit. He will meet with US President Barack Obama and together they will travel to the harbor, the attack on which by Japanese imperial forces in 1941 led to the United States’ entry into World War II.
"This visit is an opportunity to remember those who died in war … and at the same time send a message about the reconciliation between Japan and the United States," chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga said, as quoted by the Kyodo news agency.
"The prime minister said everything there is to say about his feelings on the war in his statement in August last year to mark 70 years since the end of the war," Suga added.
Abe will be Japan’s first sitting prime minister to go to Pearl Harbor 75 years after the air attack that killed thousands of people, mostly US military personnel. Last May, Obama paid the first ever visit by a serving US president to the Hiroshima, which was bombed by US air force in 1945.
