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Murayama Statement

1995 Japanese statement on its imperialist history

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 9, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The Murayama Statement was a political statement released by Prime Minister of Japan Tomiichi Murayama on August 15, 1995, officially titled "On the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the War's End" .

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The public source identifies “Murayama Statement” as 1995 Japanese statement on its imperialist history. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Murayama, Statement and Japanese.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Murayama, Statement and Japanese providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Murayama Statement” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.