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A sensitive historical moment reared its head in the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Japan’s Sanae Takaichi, while Israel mulls the possibility of a “ground component” to the Iran war as the conflict approaches its fourth week.
When leaders meet, there are certain bits of history best left untouched. Pearl Harbor would usually qualify.
Yet in his meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump went there anyway.
