Statement by Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama on the "Peace, Friendship, and Exchange Initiative"
Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the war. With the anniversary approaching, I visited the Republic of Korea in July this year, and I have just completed a tour of Southeast Asian countries. Taking this opportunity, I would like to say a few words of explanation on the basic thinking behind Japanese external policy to make the historic anniversary truly significant.
1. Japan's actions in a certain period of the past not only claimed numerous victims here in Japan ...
