Abe’s visit is a high-profile mark of contrition by a leader for whom Japan’s wartime past is often a sensitive domestic issue.
“We must never repeat the horrors of war,” he said. “What has bonded us together is the power of reconciliation, made possible through the spirit of tolerance.”
Obama — who last May made his own solemn pilgrimage to Hiroshima, the target of a US nuclear bomb that effectively ended the war — issued his own remarks that rang with history and America’s current hypercharged politics.
