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Tomiichi Murayama
(
村山 富市
,
Murayama Tomiichi
, born 3 March 1924)
is a retired
Japanese
politician. He served as the 81st
Prime Minister of Japan
from 30 June 1994 to 11 January 1996.
He was the head of the
Social Democratic Party of Japan
(until 1996, the Japan Socialist Party) and the first socialist prime minister in nearly fifty years.
[2]
He is most remembered today for his speech "
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the war's end
," in which he said sorry for what his country of Japan did over
World War II
.
Murayama was born on
?ita
, Japan in 3 March 1924. He studied at
Meiji University
. Murayama
turned 100
on 3 March 2024.
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