The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, Seiji Maehara presented a wreath to honor the U.S. service members who have sacrificed their lives throughout the Pacific during a wreath laying ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl. During the ceremony, the U.S. Marine Corps Forces Pacific Band played, the U.S. Pacific Command Joint Service Color Guard supported with a flag detail and the U.S. Pacific Air Forces Firing Squad rendered a three-gun volley. Minister Maehara is in Hawaii in order to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.