Abe should give sincere apology to all

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is reported as planning a visit to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii during his trip to the United States in early May. If he does, he will be the first Japanese prime minister to do so.

Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941, heralding the US' entry into World War II. But the attack on Pearl Harbor was not, as some Japanese believe, the beginning of the war which was already substantively global. Before the attack, Japan had already invaded China, and the war in Europe had been going on for years.

Japan's media said Abe is likely to take an anti-war oath and pay his respects to the dead in Hawaii. Abe may also go to San Francisco, where both the Treaty of Peace with Japan and the Japan-US Security Treaty were signed in September 1951.