Story highlights Shinzo Abe and Barack Obama are also set to hold their last bilateral meeting together Tuesday

Obama visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park earlier this year

Honolulu, Hawaii (CNN) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a historic visit to Pearl Harbor Tuesday, offering condolences to the thousands killed in the Japanese sneak attack 75 years ago.

Abe's visit comes seven months after President Barack Obama traveled to Hiroshima to pay his respects to the thousands who died there. The two leaders used the ceremony to affirm their nations' alliance, with Obama calling for people to "resist the urge to turn inward," perhaps a reference to President-elect Donald Trump and calls around the globe for nations to reconsider their international dependencies.

As expected, Abe did not apologize for the attack on Pearl Harbor but did offer what he called "sincere and everlasting condolences to the souls" of those who were lost on December 7, 1941. He said the Japanese had taken a "solemn vow" to never again wage war.

"We must never repeat the horrors of war again," Abe warned the audience, with the USS Arizona Memorial behind him.

In his speech, Obama reflected on the events at Pearl Harbor 75 years ago while also paying tribute to the restored relations between Japan and the United States.

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