--- title: Barack Obama and Shinzo Abe Visit Pearl Harbor: Watch Live description: U.S. President Barack Obama and his Japanese counterpart Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will speak at Pearl Harbor together in an historic visit canonical: https://time.com/4618303/barack-obama-shinzo-abe-pearl-harbor/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-27T15:39:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:28:26.466Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Live: Barack Obama and Shinzo Abe's Historic Visit to Pearl Harbor's USS Arizona Memorial og:description: U.S. President Barack Obama and his Japanese counterpart Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will speak at Pearl Harbor together in an historic visit og:url: https://time.com/4618303/barack-obama-shinzo-abe-pearl-harbor/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf891fc6a32d7a3e8/6988b40597cdff74446aefb8/barack-obama-shinzu-abe.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: barack obama shinzu abe og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Live: Barack Obama and Shinzo Abe's Historic Visit to Pearl Harbor's USS Arizona Memorial twitter:description: U.S. President Barack Obama and his Japanese counterpart Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will speak at Pearl Harbor together in an historic visit twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf891fc6a32d7a3e8/6988b40597cdff74446aefb8/barack-obama-shinzu-abe.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Live: Barack Obama and Shinzo Abe's Historic Visit to Pearl Harbor's USS Arizona Memorial  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Dec 27, 2016 3:39 PM UTC  U.S. President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on May 27, 2016 in Hiroshima, Japan. U.S. President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on May 27, 2016 in Hiroshima, Japan.Atsushi Tomura—Getty Images  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Dec 27, 2016 3:39 PM UTC [U.S. President Barack Obama](http://time.com/4618125/barack-obama-president-third-term-hope/) and his Japanese counterpart Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will speak at Pearl Harbor together in an [historic visit](http://time.com/4603579/history-shinzo-abe-pearl-harbor/) more than 75 years after the U.S. base was attacked by the Japanese. Previous Japanese prime ministers have visited the site, but Abe will be the first to offer formal condolences. “The two leaders’ visit will showcase the power of reconciliation that has turned former adversaries into the closest of allies,” the White House said in a [statement](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/0f420655de81473aac13206eecd393bd/japanese-leader-abe-visit-pearl-harbor-obama) this month. Obama paid a [similar visit](http://time.com/4324308/barack-obama-hiroshima-visit-japan/) earlier this year to Hiroshima, where the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb that ended World War II in 1945. Watch the Pearl Harbor visit live above at about 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday. 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