12.30.2016

Shinzo Abe at Pearl Harbor: ‘Rest in Peace, Precious Souls of the Fallen’


                              

The New York Times
Shinzo Abe at Pearl Harbor: ‘Rest in Peace, Precious Souls of the Fallen’(script)
Summary
On  May 2016, President Obama visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, where the United States first dropped an atomic bomb in Japan nearly 75 years ago. As an American president, he was the first person who visited there.
On December 27, 2016, the prime minister of Japan Shinzo Abe stood there at Pearl Harbor, wherein after the war, Japanese minister had never visited but this is the place where the Imperial Japanese soldiers went into attack first.
The attack led to the United States'entry into The World War II. I want people in the world to think that the two events can create the power of reconciliation. And then I think that the most important thing is that we Japanese people's attitudes have to make this word "reconciliation"  better. When we think and talk about The World War II and Hiroshima, we have to admit what happened at Pearl Harbor more. We have to give precious souls of the fallen rest in peace. We must never repeat the horrors of war again. We continue to remember them but we continue our efforts.

The Japan Times News
Full text of President Obama’s speech at Pearl Harbor (article)

The New York times
Text of President Obama’s Speech in Hiroshima, Japan 


Words in this article
inscribed /  carve, write, engrave, write or carve (words or symbols) on something, especially as a formal or permanent record.
tolerance / patience, endurance, the ability or willingness to tolerate something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with.
the fallen / soldiers who have died in a war

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