Japanese media once again reported that then lawmaker Shinzo Abe in 1995 refused to endorse a parliamentary resolution regarding his country’s wartime aggression.
The Japanese daily Asahi Shimbun reported on Wednesday that the current Prime Minister of Japan did not participate in the vote 20 years ago on the resolution that only softly addressed Japan's wartime atrocities.
The then coalition-government members of the Liberal Democratic Party, Social Democratic Party and the New Party Sakigake did not add apologetic terms in the resolution. The parties, however, used the expressions “colonial rule” and “aggression” to mark the 50th anniversary of Japan's defeat in World War II.
The Japanese daily said that Abe and other right wing lawmakers' boycott of the vote prompted then-Prime Minister, Tomiichi Murayama, to issue his 1995 landmark apology on the anniversary.
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