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Former Japanese prime ministers urge Abe to include apology in statement 日전직총리

Former Japanese prime ministers are urging current Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to clearly include an acknowledgement and apology for the country′s wartime aggression in his upcoming statement marking the 70th anniversary of Japan′s surrender in World War II. Tokyo－based Kyodo News Agency reports that Yukio Hatoyama， speaking at a press conference on Wednesday， said there would be serious complications if words such as ″invasion″ or ″colonial rule″ are not included in the statement， and that it would raise tensions in East Asia. Hatoyama is even known to have said that it would be better not to issue the statement at all， if Abe does not want to use a clear expression. His comment comes a day after his predecessor Tomiichi Murayama launched into a similar criticism during a lecture. Murayama， whose landmark statement in 1995 officially admitted to and apologized for Japan′s colonial occupation of the Korean peninsula， said Abe doesn′t want to remark on the country′s atrocities because he doesn′t want to acknowledge it.