article_snippet.sent: (CNN)Japanese Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is scheduled to speak Wednesday to a joint meeting of Congress.
article_snippet.sent: The address marks the first time in history that the head of the Japanese government will address the entire U.S. Congress, and given the importance of the U.S.-Japan relationship, it is an invitation long overdue.
article_snippet.sent: So far, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo AbeJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's appearance has garnered much less attention than last month's speech to Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
article_snippet.sent: This is not surprising; in a recent survey by the Pew Research Center nearly three-quarters of the respondents indicated the respondents had "never heard ofJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo AbeJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, underscoring just how difficult it is for the Obama administration to sell the Obama administration much-vaunted "pivot" or "rebalance" to the American public.
article_snippet.sent: In the eyes of many in China and South Korea, Japan has never sufficiently apologized for Japan past transgressions, while the United States itself expressed disappointment over a visit Prime Minister Abe made to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine.
article_snippet.sent: Yet despite such criticisms, a Pew poll found a plurality in the United States thinks that the apologies that Japan has issued in the past about the war are sufficient.
highlights_snippet.sent: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will address Congress on Wednesday .
  