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Japanese Prime Minister Murayama in 1995

Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama issues a statement on the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 15, 1995.

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Japanese Prime Minister Murayama in 1994

Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (front row, C) and newly appointed Cabinet members pose for a commemorative photo after their first Cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 30, 1994.

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Former Japanese Prime Minister Murayama in 2024

Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama poses for a photo on Feb. 23, 2024, in the southwestern Japan city of Oita, ahead of his 100th birthday on March 3.

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Former Japanese Prime Minister Murayama

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama is interviewed by Kyodo News in Oita, Oita Prefecture, on Feb. 12, 2013.

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Ex-Japan PM Murayama to attend China's WWII event

TOKYO, April 3 Kyodo - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, shown in this undated photo, is planning to attend a ceremony that China will hold in September 2015 marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, Murayama told Kyodo News on April 3, 2015.

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Ex-PM Murayama discusses Japan's ties with neighbors

FUKUOKA, Japan - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama speaks as a panelist during a symposium held in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, to discuss Tokyo's relations with neighboring countries such as China and South Korea.

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400 say goodbye to ex-lower house speaker Doi

TOKYO, Japan - Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama makes a speech under a picture of Takako Doi, a former speaker of Japan's House of Representatives and former chief of the Social Democratic Party, at a memorial ceremony for her in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2014. Around 400 said goodbye to Doi, who died of pneumonia on Sept. 20 at 85.

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Ex-PM Murayama attends farewell service of Doi

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama attends a farewell service for Takako Doi, a former House of Representatives speaker and former chief of the Social Democratic Party, at the Parliamentary Museum in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2014. Doi died on Sept. 20 at 85.

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Ex-PM Murayama in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama speaks at a meeting in Seoul hosted by the South Korean government-backed Northeast Asian History Foundation on Aug. 22, 2014. Murayama, 90, called on Japan and South Korea to hold summit talks to resolve the issue of wartime sex slavery that has deteriorated bilateral ties. (Pool photo)

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Ex-PM Murayama to give speech in Seoul

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who will visit Seoul for three days from Aug. 21, 2014, and deliver a speech on historical issues between Japan and South Korea.

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Ex-Japan premier

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, 89, holds a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Feb. 27, 2014.

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Murayama in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (L) and South Korean Prime Minister Jung Hong Won hold talks in Seoul on Feb. 13, 2014.

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Murayama in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (L) and South Korean Prime Minister Jung Hong Won shake hands their talks in Seoul on Feb. 13, 2014.

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Ex-Japan PM Murayama, widow of Kim Dae Jung

SEOUL, South Korea - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (L) meets with Lee Hee Ho (R), the widow of former South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, in Seoul on Feb. 13, 2014.

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Ex-Japan PM Murayama says Abe will uphold 1995 statement

SEOUL, South Korea - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, in the South Korean capital on a three-day visit from Feb. 11 at the invitation of the minor opposition Justice Party, speaks at a press conference in Seoul on Feb. 12, 2014.

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Ex-Japan PM Murayama says Abe will uphold 1995 statement

SEOUL, South Korea - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, in the South Korean capital on a three-day visit from Feb. 11 at the invitation of the minor opposition Justice Party, speaks at a press conference in Seoul on Feb. 12, 2014.

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Former Japan PM Murayama

SEOUL, South Korea - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama delivers a speech at the National Assembly in Seoul on Feb. 12, 2014. Murayama, 89, was invited to visit Seoul by the South Korean opposition Justice Party.

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Former Japan PM Murayama

SEOUL, South Korea - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama delivers a speech at the National Assembly in Seoul on Feb. 12, 2014. Murayama, 89, was invited to visit Seoul by the South Korean opposition Justice Party.

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Former Japanese premier Murayama visits S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (R) receives a bouquet of flowers during his visit to Seoul on Feb. 11, 2014, at the invitation of the South Korean opposition Justice Party.

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Nelson Mandela dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows then South African President Nelson Mandela (R) and then Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama shaking hands before their meeting in Tokyo in July 1995. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate who waged a long and ultimately victorious struggle against apartheid died on Dec. 5, 2013. He was 95.

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Ex-British Prime Minister Thatcher dies at 87

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in May 1995 shows former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (L) being presented with the Order of the Precious Crown from Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama at the prime minister's office in Tokyo. Thatcher died April 8, 2013, after suffering a stroke, according to the BBC and other British media. She was 87.

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Ex-Japan premier in China

BEIJING, China - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (L) and former Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan shake hands in Beijing on Jan. 28, 2013. (Pool photo)

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Ex-Japan premier in China

BEIJING, China - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (front L), former Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan (front C) and Koichi Kato (front R), former secretary general of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, attend a photo session in Beijing on Jan. 28, 2013. (Pool photo)

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Ex-Japan premier in China

BEIJING, China - A Japanese delegation including former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (R) and Koichi Kato (2nd from R), former secretary general of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, hold talks with former Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan (L) in Beijing on Jan. 28, 2013. (Pool photo)

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Former Indonesian strongman Suharto dies at 86

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian President Suharto (C) poses with U.S. President Bill Clinton (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (R) prior to an informal APEC summit at the Bogor Palace near Jakarta in November 1994. Suharto who shaped and ruled the country for 32 years through ruthless but quiet authoritarianism, died on Jan. 27 at age 86.

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Chinese premier meets with ex-Japanese Prime Minister Murayama

BEIJING, China - Chinese Premier Wen Jiaobao (R) meets with former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama at Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Sept. 27. Murayama is visiting China as part of events to mark the 35th anniversary of normalization of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

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Chinese, Japanese leaders mark anniversary of diplomatic ties

BEIJING, China - The Chinese government hosts a reception for Japanese politicians and business leaders at Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Sept. 27 to mark the 35th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries. From R to L: Fujio Mitarai, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, China's State Councillor Tang Jiaxuan, former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, Chinese Premier Wen Jiaobao, and former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori.

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Chinese, Japanese leaders mark anniversary of diplomatic ties

BEIJING, China - Chinese Premier Wen Jiaobao (C) toasts former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (R) at a reception hosted by the Chinese government at Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Sept. 27 to mark the 35th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries. At far left is former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori.

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Japan to dissolve in 2007 fund to compensate 'comfort women'

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who serves as president of the Asian Women's Fund, tells reporters at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 24 that the fund will be dissolved in March 2007. The fund was set up in 1995 at the initiative of the government to compensate women who were forced to act as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II.

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Hu meets with Japanese leaders

BEIJING, China - Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) is in talks with Chief Cabinet Seceretary Yasuo Fukuda (L), former prime ministers Tomiichi Murayama (2nd from L) and Ryutaro Hashimoto (2nd from R) in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Aug. 9.

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Japan, S. Korea agree on basis for resolving textbook issue

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka (R) meets with South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong at her ministry in Tokyo on May 2. They agreed that an apology issued in 1995 by then Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama should be the basis for resolving the issue of controversial Japanese history textbooks.

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Murayama meets the press in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama speaks at a news conference at Beijing airport Dec. 5. Murayama, who led an unofficial Japanese delegation to North Korea, arrived in Beijing on his way back to Japan.

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Tomiichi Murayama

Born March 3, 1924 in Oita Prefecture. Murayama was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1972. He served as prime minister Jan. 30, 1994 to Jan. 11, 1996, leading a coalition government of the Liberal Democratic Party, the Social Democratic Party and the defunct New Party Sakigake. He retired from politics in 2000. Photo was taken February 2000.

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Japan-China friendship marks 50th anniversary

BEIJING, China - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (L) and China's Vice President Hu Jintao (R) attend a ceremony in Beijing on Oct. 21 commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Japan-China Friendship Association. The ceremony was attended by some 2,000 people, including Ikuo Hirayama, a well-known Japanese-style painter who is also the association's chairman.

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N. Korea's Jong meets Japanese politicians

TOKYO, Japan - North Korean Ambassador Jong Thae Hwa (R), who heads a delegation for talks with Japan, meets and shakes hands with Japanese politicians at the Diet building in Tokyo on Aug. 22. From left are Hiromu Nonaka, secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, Masaaki Nakayama, head of the Japanese parliamentarian group for friendship with North Korea, and former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama. Japanese and North Korean negotiators kicked off their second round of talks the same day on establishing diplomatic ties.

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Former Premier Murayama mourns Obuchi at Diet

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (in the background) on May 30 reads a eulogy for former Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi at a plenary session of the Diet. Speaking before members of the House of Representatives, Murayama, a member of the Social Democratic Party and premier from 1994 to 1996, said, ''I hoped to see Mr. Obuchi standing at the center among leaders of the Group of Eight at the Okinawa summit.'' Obuchi died May 14, six weeks after suffering a stroke and falling in a coma.

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Obuchi's wife, children at Diet to hear eulogy

TOKYO, Japan - Chizuko Obuchi (R), widow of former Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, and the Obuchis' three children visit the public gallery of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on May 30 to listen to a eulogy for Obuchi, who died May 14. The eulogy was read by former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama.

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Murayama meets the press

TOKYO, Japan - Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (C) and Hiromu Nonaka, acting secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party (R), speak at a news conference Dec. 3 on their just-ended mission to North Korea, where they announced a joint statement calling for an early resumption of government-level talks on normalization of diplomatic ties between the two countries.

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N. Korea, Japan parties announce joint statement

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (L), leader of a Japanese parliamentary delegation, and Kim Yong Sun (R), secretary of the Workers Party of Korea's central committee secretariat, shake hands in Pyongyang on Dec. 3 after announcing a joint statement calling for an early resumption of talks between the two countries on establishing diplomatic ties.

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Murayama reports to Obuhi

TOKYO, Japan - Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (R) shakes hands with Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (C) at the latter's official residence Dec. 3. Murayama reported to Obuchi on his just-ended mission to North Korea. At left is Hiromu Nonaka who accompanied Muranama on the three-day mission.

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N. Korea, Japan parties urge early resumption of talks

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (L) shakes hands with Kim Yong Sun, secretary of the Workers Party of Korea's central committee secretariat, in Pyongyang on Dec. 3, after they signed a joint statement urging the governments of the two countries to resume talks ''at an early date'' on establishing diplomatic ties.

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Murayama meets head of N. Korea's supreme people's assembly

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (R) shakes hands with Kim Yong Nam, president of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea, in Pyongyang on Dec. 3. Murayama is leading a delegation of Japanese lawmakers from both ruling and opposition parties on a three-day visit to North Korea. The Workers Party of (North) Korea agreed Dec. 2 to the delegation's proposal that the governments of the two countries resume dialogue on normalizing ties by the end of this year.

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Japanese wives of North Koreans talk with lawmakers

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Japanese wives of North Koreans talk to members of a Japanese parliamentary delegation, headed by former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (R), in Pyongyang on Dec. 2.

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Japanese delegation meets reps of Workers Party of Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - A delegation of 16 Japanese lawmakers, headed by former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (R), meets representatives of the Workers Party of Korea at the Mansudae assembly hall in Pyongyang on Dec. 2.

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Murayama hands letter from Obuchi

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (R) hands a letter from Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, to Kim Yong Sun (L), secretary of the Workers Party of Korea's central committee secretariat, in Pyongyang on Dec. 2. Murayama is the leader of a mission consisting of lawmakers of both ruling and opposition parties. The delegation hopes the two countries will draw up a document calling for them to resume dialogue.

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Murayama greeted by

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (C) and former Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka (R) are greeted by Kim Yong Sun (L), secretary of the Workers Party of Korea's central committee secretariat, at the Mansudae assembly hall in Pyongyang on Dec. 1. Murayama flew into Pyongyang earlier in the day at the head of a 16-member parliamentary delegation representing Japan's seven ruling and opposition parties.

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Japanese delegation arrives in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (L) and former Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka (2nd from R) receive flowers on arrival at Pyongyang airport Dec. 1 on a three-day visit aimed to pave the way for resuming talks on normalizing diplomatic ties between Japan and North Korea. Murayama is leading a 16-member parliamentary delegation representing Japan's seven ruling and opposition parties.

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Japanese lawmakers leave for Pyongyang

TOKYO, Japan - A nonpartisan group of Japanese lawmakers led by former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (C front) pose for a photo before boarding a plane for a three-day visit to Pyongyang, at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Dec. 1. Murayama and 15 other lawmakers are en route for Pyongyang as Japan's first mission to North Korea comprising members of all seven major political parties.

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Murayama, Nonaka visit leader of Korean residents' group

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (C) and Hiromu Nonaka, deputy secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (R), pay a courtesy call to So Man Sul (L), 1st vice chairman of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, on Nov. 30 at the association's head office in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. Leading a mission of lawmakers from seven ruling and opposition parties, Murayama and Nonaka will leave Dec. 1 for a 3-day visit to North Korea.

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Members of Murayama mission hold 1st meeting

TOKYO, Nov. 25 Kyodo - Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (C) on Nov. 25 addresses members of a nonpartisan group, which is due to visit North Korea from Dec. 1 to 3. Murayama will be leading the 16-member delegation, aimed to lay the ground for resumption of normalization talks between Tokyo and Pyongyang.