Will Shinzo Abe's historic US speech drown out Japan's war denials?

When Shinzo Abe becomes the first Japanese prime minister to address a joint session of the US Congress today it will be under a shadow cast by events of seven decades ago. For Japan, Prime Minster Abe’s week-long trip to the US that saw him at Harvard on Monday, and in the Oval Office and at a White House state dinner on Tuesday, is meant to demonstrate just how far the Japan-US relationship has come since the Pacific war ended in August 1945. Mr. Abe has been talking about cooperation on t