deplored Murayama Statement

army’s actions in Korea and China as severe human rights violations, and has endorsed the much-deplored Murayama Statement of war responsibility issued in 1995, which explicitly admitted that the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces were responsible for war crimes in Asia.13 Not only that, he has roundly criticised the wartime government for its decision to fight the Pacific War, much to the horror of the far-right which claims that Japan was uniquely virtuous in its conduct of the war Future Challenges ufabet