Pearl Harbor
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Three more months later, it will be 85 years since the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
In 2016, Japanese PM Shinzo Abe visited the US naval base at Pearl Harbor and a memorial in Arizona, offering "sincere and everlasting condolences" to the victims of Japan's attack.
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026
Looking to Takaichi, the 79-year-old president said, "Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor, OK?"
From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026
President Trump: "We wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"
From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026
He and Tessie were stationed at Pearl Harbor, where they lived in austere marital housing and where my mother, at twenty-five, got a terrible sunburn and was never seen in a bathing suit again.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
