Twenty years ago, Murayama expressed his “heartfelt apology” to people in Asian countries over Japan’s “colonial rule and aggression” before and during WWII. Such words were essentially repeated a decade later when Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi issued a statement to mark the 60th anniversary of the war’s ending. What Abe will say in his upcoming statement has been a subject of political speculation since he said earlier this year that he wants to avoid “nitpicking” about what words were omitted or newly inserted compared with the past war-anniversary statements.
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