TOKYO: Japan’s former prime minister MURAYAMA Tomiichi, famous for making a statement apologising over World War II, died Friday aged 101, media reports said.
Murayama, in office from 1994-1996, issued the 1995 statement on the 50th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II, in which he expressed “deep remorse” over Japan’s atrocities in Asia.
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