00:00Former Japanese Prime Minister Murayama Tomiichi has died aged 101.
00:06He is best remembered for a 1995 apology for Japan's actions during World War II
00:11delivered on the 50th anniversary of Japan's surrender.
00:15The statement was welcomed by the U.S. and Japan's Asian neighbors
00:19that had suffered from Japanese colonization and military aggression.
00:23His apology has become standard for subsequent Japanese leaders
00:26in confronting the nation's wartime past.
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