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Japan's Abe may not be first sitting PM to visit Pearl Harbor - spokesman

TOKYO: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Pearl Harbour this month may not be the first by a sitting Japanese premier but will be the first with a U.S. president, his top government spokesman said on Thursday, trying to clarify confusion over the trip.

Abe announced on Monday he would join President Barack Obama on a Dec. 26-27 visit to the site of the Japanese surprise attack 75 years ago that drew the United States into World War Two.

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