Japan risks forgetting the lessons of its militarist past if prime minister Shinzo Abe tampers with history, according to the man who made the country’s definitive apology for the second world war.
In an interview with the Financial Times, former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama — who made a landmark declaration in 1995 on the 50th anniversary of the war’s end — attacked Mr Abe’s decision to make a new statement on the 70th anniversary this year.
Mr Murayama’s intervention, which comes as Mr Abe prepares for speeches in Indonesia and the US where he is likely to road-test his message on history, shows how the legacy of the war remains fiercely disputed in Japan.
您已阅读19%（668字），剩余81%（2921字）包含更多重要信息，订阅以继续探索完整内容，并享受更多专属服务。