Barack Obama will be the first U.S. President to visit Hiroshima in Japan, but he will not apologize for United States dropping the atomic bomb on the city at the end of World War Two on August 6, 1945. The Hiroshima tour will symbolize a new level of reconciliation between former wartime enemies who are now close allies.

On May 27th, Obama will tour the site of the world’s first nuclear bombing with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Arriving at the end of his term in office, Obama will “highlight  his continued commitment to pursuing the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons,” the White House said in a statement.

Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize early in his presidency in 2009 for making nuclear nonproliferation the center of his agenda, President Obama “will not revisit the decision to use the atomic bomb.. Instead he will offer a forward-looking vision focused on our shared future,” Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national security adviser, wrote in a separate blog.

Obama plans to improve U.S.-Japan ties by proposing an Asia-Pacific trade pact as well as cooperation against China’s pursuit of maritime claims and the nuclear threat from North Korea. He will emphasize Washington’s responsibility “to lead the world in an effort to eliminate [nuclear weapons in wartime].”

Prime Minister Abe quotes, “President Obama visiting Hiroshima and expressing toward the world of reality of the impact of nuclear radiation will contribute greatly to establishing a world without nuclear arms.”