CNN: Shinzo Abe To Become First Japanese Leader To Visit Pearl Harbor

Shinzo Abe to become first Japanese leader to visit Pearl Harbor (CNN)

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced on Monday he would visit Pearl Harbor in late December with US President Barack Obama, just over 75 years after Japan's attack in 1941.

He will be the first Japanese leader to visit the area since the end of World War II.

Speaking to reporters on Monday evening, Abe implied the visit was in return for Obama visiting Hiroshima earlier this year.