Former Japanese Prime Minister Murayama, known for apologizing over wartime aggression, dies at 101

Tomichi Murayama, former Prime Minister of Japan, known for his bushy eyebrows and apology for his 1995 “Murayama statement” Asian The victims of their country’s aggression died of old age on Friday. He was 101 years old.

Murayama died at a hospital in his hometown of Oita, southwestern Japan, according to a statement from Mizuho Fukushima, head of the Social Democratic Party of Japan.

As head of the party then known as the Japan Socialist Party, Murayama led a coalition government from June 1994 to January 1996.