Hiroshima and Pearl Harbor become 'sister parks,' 78 years on

Move angers some A-bomb survivors who say U.S. attack was unjustifiable

The USS Arizona memorial at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, left, and the memorial cenotaph at the Peace Memorial Park of Hiroshima. (Source photos by Reuters and AP)

KEN MORIYASU, Nikkei Asia diplomatic correspondent

June 29, 2023 20:31 JST

TOKYO -- The sites of two devastating attacks during World War II, Pearl Harbor in 1941 and Hiroshima in 1945, became "sister parks" on Thursday.

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel and Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui, representing the Pearl Harbor National Memorial and the Peace Memorial Park of Hiroshima, signed the symbolic arrangement at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo.