Obama Set for Likely Final Meeting with Foreign Leader

Published December 27, 2016 7:03pm ET



President Barack Obama is set to meet with Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe in Hawaii on Tuesday, where the two men will honor American war casualties at Pearl Harbor. The encounter is expected to be the president’s last meeting with a foreign head of state before departing office next month.

Abe, who already paid tribute Monday at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, will be the first Japanese leader to visit the USS Arizona Memorial, which was established for the sailors killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor 75 years ago. Abe does not plan to apologize for the incident, much like President Obama did not apologize for the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima during a visit to the city earlier this year.

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