Shinzo Abe is about to start a defining week for his premiership as he travels to Indonesia before an unprecedented address to a joint session of the US Congress early next week.
The Japanese prime minister’s words — around memories of the second world war in particular — will have repercussions for the Japan/US alliance, his authority at home and room for manoeuvre in a statement on the 70th anniversary of the war’s end this August.
Officials are giving away little about the content of Mr Abe’s Washington speech, but people who know him point to his address at the Australian parliament in Canberra last year.
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