# Tomiichi Murayama, Former Prime Minister of Japan, dies at 101 years old

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[Japan ex-PM Murayama, famous for WWII apology, dies aged 101](https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/world/20251017/japan-ex-pm-murayama-famous-for-wwii-apology-dies-aged-101-reports)

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> TOKYO — Japan’s former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, best known for making a statement apologising over World War II, died Friday aged 101, officials said.
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> Murayama, in office from 1994 to 1996, issued the 1995 statement on the 50th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in which he expressed “deep remorse” over the country’s atrocities in Asia.
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> “Tomiichi Murayama, the father of Japanese politics, passed away today at 11:28 am at a hospital in Oita City at the age of 101,” Mizuho Fukushima, head of the Social Democratic Party, seen as the successor to Murayama’s now-defunct Socialist Party, said on X.

[Here is the full text in English of the famous apology.](https://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/press/pm/murayama/9508.html)

That site is from Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The speech is dated 15 August 1995.