December 26, 2016

"The Japan-U.S. alliance, which Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe aspires to strengthen through his visit to Pearl Harbor, could backfire if it puts regional stability at risk.

Abe's upcoming visit to the port, on which the Japanese army launched a sneak attack 75 years ago that immediately led the United States to World War II, is mostly interpreted as a symbol of reconciliation between the former foes in the war.

Some also associated the visit with U.S. President Barack Obama's May trip to Hiroshima, one of the two Japanese cities that saw U.S. atomic bomb attacks in 1945."

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