WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (NsNewsWire) — The White House said on Monday that U.S. President Barack Obama will meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe late December in Honolulu, Hawaii.

The meeting on Dec. 27 will be a chance for the two leaders to review their joint efforts over the past four years to strengthen the U.S.-Japan alliance, said the White House in a statement, reports Xinhua.

Obama and Abe will also visit the Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, the statement added.

More than 2,000 U.S. servicemen were killed on Dec. 7, 1941 at the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

The attack came as a shock to the Americans and directly led to U.S. entry into World War II.

On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, southwestern Japan. Another U.S. nuclear strike was launched on another southwestern Japanese city of Nagasaki three days later.

Japan surrendered on Aug. 15, 1945.