let's not forget, they did attack us and start our involvement in world war ii. it's nice to acknowledge all these decades later that, despite our deep and long decades of friendship, that they are based on a horrific period, our nation's history where a lot of people died on both sides. >> and a wariness of china's emergence in that area, where we're responsible for the defense. it's interesting that we thought this was the first prime minister to visit. hawaii is the third. they did low-key visits before and it was his grandfather that was the first leader to visit from japan. >> they also visited the grave of former u.s. senator daniel inoye whose parents were japanese. >> it's also interesting, if you look back, the u.s. and russia were allies at that point in time and now you look at the suspicion among the two groups yet at the same time, the relationship between the u.s. and russia -- between japan and germany now as allies, interesting turn. >> i'm glad we're doing it. i think it's awesome. i lost an uncle in world war ii.