Ex-PM Murayama talks about upcoming Abe statement on postwar Japan

Ex-PM Murayama talks about upcoming Abe statement on postwar Japan

Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama talks on March 11, 2015, at the inaugural session of a study group about the upcoming statement by incumbent Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. Murayama stressed the need for the statement to contain a reference to soul searching as regards Japan's colonial rule and aggression, a line featured in his own statement 20 years ago. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

  • Product Code
  • ILEA000046349
  • Registered date
  • 2015/3/19 15:56:07
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • Media size
  • 1324 × 1692 pixel
  • Resolution
  • 240 dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 244.31(KB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos
    Japan's education minister at parliament

    Japan's education minister at parliament

    Japan's education minister Yoshimasa Hayashi speaks at a session of the House of Councillors budget committee in Tokyo on March 20, 2018. Hayashi confirmed at a press conference the same day that Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers made enquiries to his ministry about a school lecture given by a former top bureaucrat who has accused Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of favoritism, but denied that this amounted to political interference. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
      Japan land sale scandal

      Japan land sale scandal

      File photo taken on March 13, 2018, shows the site where school operator Moritomo Gakuen planned to open an elementary school in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture. A contractor involved in the sale of the land, at the center of a scandal engulfing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has said it falsified a report on buried waste at the government's request, leading to a huge reduction in the sale price, sources close to the matter said March 16, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
        Japanese PM Abe

        Japanese PM Abe

        Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) speaks at a session of the House of Councilors budget committee with Finance Minister Taro Aso (L) sitting behind in Tokyo on March 14, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
          Cronyism scandal in Japan

          Cronyism scandal in Japan

          Photo taken March 12, 2018, shows a building on former state-owned land in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture. A scandal over the heavily discounted sale of the land to school operator Moritomo Gakuen has been at the center of favoritism allegations involving Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
            Cronyism scandal in Japan

            Cronyism scandal in Japan

            Photo taken March 12, 2018, shows a building on former state-owned land in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture. A scandal over the heavily discounted sale of the land to school operator Moritomo Gakuen has been at the center of favoritism allegations involving Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
              Japan PM Abe, Finance Minister Aso

              Japan PM Abe, Finance Minister Aso

              Photo shows Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and Finance Minister Taro Aso chat ahead of a session at the House of Councillors in Tokyo on March 8, 2018, over an allegation that Aso's deputies secretly altered some documents related to a high-profile state land sale. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
                Abe re-elected as Japan PM

                Abe re-elected as Japan PM

                Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe leaves his office in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2017, to attend an attestation ceremony at the Imperial Palace after being re-elected as head of the government in a special Diet session the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
                  Ex-Defense Minister Inada visits Yasukuni Shrine

                  Ex-Defense Minister Inada visits Yasukuni Shrine

                  Former Defense Minister Tomomi Inada visits the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15, 2017, the 72nd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a ritual donation to the shrine the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
                    Japanese Prime Minister Abe reshuffles Cabinet

                    Japanese Prime Minister Abe reshuffles Cabinet

                    Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from L in front) talks with Finance Minister Taro Aso at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 3, 2017, as he and his new Cabinet ministers pose for group photos. Abe reshuffled his Cabinet earlier in the day in an attempt to regain public support hurt by a series of scandals including a cronyism allegation against him. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
                      Ex-education minister denies illegal political funds management

                      Ex-education minister denies illegal political funds management

                      Hakubun Shimomura, executive acting secretary general of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, attends a press conference in Tokyo on June 29, 2017. The former education minister denied a weekly magazine report that his support group illegally handled donations from a school operator at the heart of a favoritism scandal involving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo