Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba plans to seek expert opinions to examine lessons learned from World War II but is not expected to deliver a cabinet-approved statement to mark the 80th anniversary of the ...

With the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II approaching, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba intends to establish an ...

To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba wants to re-examine the origins of the ...

The construction of a community with a shared future for mankind requires a vision of common, comprehensive, cooperative and ...

if the league doesn’t alter the “tush push” rule the coaches and players will take matters into their own hands and fix it. Reach Curtis Murayama at [email protected].

On the 50th anniversary in 1995, then Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, leader of a major left-leaning party, expressed "deep remorse" and offered his "heartfelt apology" for Japan causing damage and ...

Previous statements include then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's 2005 statement for the 60th anniversary and then Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama's 1995 statement marking 50 years since the ...

When Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi died abruptly in May 2000 while still in office, former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, not leader of the main opposition party at that time, was chosen to make ...

Speculation is rampant that the nationalist Abe will water down the landmark apology offered by then-Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama in 1995 over Japan's state-sponsored crimes during the ...

A former Japanese prime minister apologized at the site of a colonial-era prison Wednesday where numerous Korean independence fighters were tortured and killed.