Looking back at Shinzo Abe's 2016 visit to Hawaii

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Then-Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe, left, shakes hands with Gov. David Ige after placing wreaths in the Japanese Section of the Makiki Cemetery on Dec. 26, 2016, in Honolulu. The monuments house the remains of 289 Japanese pioneers who died without descendants, as well as sixteen Japanese sailors who died in Hawaii or on imperial navy warships passing by the islands during the Meiji Era.

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Then-Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe places wreaths in the Japanese Section of the Makiki Cemetery on Dec. 26, 2016, in Honolulu. Abe's foreign minister, Fumio Kishida, stands on his right, and his minister of defense, Tomomi Inada, stands on his left.

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Then-Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe places wreaths in the Japanese Section of the Makiki Cemetery on Dec. 26, 2016, in Honolulu. Joining Abe are representatives Kensaku Furuashi, left, and Toshimasa Arai from Meijikai and past president Roy Tominaga from United Japanese Society of Hawaii.

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Then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's foreign minister, Fumio Kishida, left, receives a bow from the president of Meijikai, Noburo Haynes, while Abe signs the Meijikai guest book on Dec. 26, 2016, in Honolulu. Abe's minister of defense, Tomomi Inada, and the president of the United Japanese Society of Hawaii, Dean Asahina, watch.

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With his foreign minister, Fumio Kishida, standing on his right and his minister of defense, Tomomi Inada, standing on his left, then-Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe bows after placing a wreath in the Japanese Section of the Makiki Cemetery on Dec. 26, 2016, in Honolulu.

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Then-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl on Monday, Dec. 26, 2016. At right is James Horton, Director of the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl. Other members of the official party were, from left, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Koichi Hagiuda, Advisor to the Prime Minister Seiichi Eto, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and Defense Minister Tomomi Inada.

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Then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl on Monday, Dec. 26, 2016. At right is James Horton, Director of the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl, and in back is then-Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada.

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