AKIPRESS.COM - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Barack Obama will honor those who died at Pearl Harbor on Tuesday, appearing together 75 years after Japan's attack on Hawaii.

"The two leaders' visit will showcase the power of reconciliation that has turned former adversaries into the closest of allies, united by common interests and shared values," according to a White House statement.

Abe's visit comes seven months after Obama's historic trip to Hiroshima in which he became the first sitting US president to visit the site where the United States dropped a nuclear bomb in 1945, CNN said.

Abe had implied his visit was in return for Obama visiting Hiroshima.

"President Obama's message for the world without nuclear upon his visit to Hiroshima was engraved in the heart of the Japanese people," Abe said earlier this month when his visit was announced.

"This will be a visit to soothe the souls of the victims. We should never repeat the ravages of the war."

Although Abe is the fourth Japanese Prime Minister to visit Pearl Harbor, he is the first to visit the USS Arizona Memorial, a US battleship in which 1,177 Marines and sailors died after it sank in the harbor during the surprise attack on December 7, 1941. The attack left 2,403 dead and triggered the United States' entry into World War II.