Ex-lower house head Kono urges Abe to include apology in WWII statement

Ex-lower house head Kono urges Abe to include apology in WWII statement

Former lower house head Yohei Kono speaks at a lecture hosted by Kyodo News in Tokyo on June 2, 2015, stressing the need for the inclusion of the word "apology" for Japan's wartime deeds in a statement Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is due to release this summer on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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