Shinzo Abe visits Pearl Harbour

Shinzo Abe and Barack Obama

Shinzo Abe and Barack Obama Source: SBS

Seventy seven years after the Japanese attack on US warships at Pearl Harbour, Shinzo Abe has become the first leader to visit the site of the attack that signaled the start of the War in the Pacific.


I le tausaga e 1941, na pomu ai e vaalele tau a Iapani vaatau a Amerika na tau i Pearl Harbour in Hawaii ma e lata i le 3 afe tagata na maliliu ai.

 

O iina na amata ai le vaega lona 2 o le Taua lona 2 o le Lalolagi lea e faaigoaina o le Taua i le Pasefika

 

Ua 77 tausaga talu ona faia lenei osofa'iga, ae faato'a asiasi se ta'ita'i o Iapani i Peral Harbour i le vaiaso nei.

 

I le feiloa'iga a le palemia o Iapani Shinzo Abe ma le palemia o Amerika Barack Obama, na faato'a momoli ai e Shinzo Abe se feau o le filemu i tagata ma aiga o e na maliliu i le osofaiga i Pearl Harbour.

 

 

ABE

"President Obama, the people of the United States of America, and the people around the world, as the prime minister of Japan, I offer my sincere and everlasting condolences to the souls of those who lost their lives here as well as to the spirits of all the brave men and women whose lives were taken by a war that commenced in this very place."

 

Ua 77 tausaga e le'i aloa'ia e se taitai o Iapani le tulaga na oo iai le lalolagi ona o le osofaiga o Pearl Harbor, ae na saunoa le peresitene o Amerika, Barack Obama, poo le a le loloto o le manu'aga i taua, ae manumalo lava le agaga o le faaleleiga.....

 

OBAMA

"Thank you for your gracious words, thank you for your presence here today, a historic gesture that speaks to the power of reconciliation and the alliance between the American and Japanese peoples. A reminder that even the deepest wounds of war can give way to friendship and lasting peace."

 






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