Japan's former PM Tomiichi Murayama, famous for WW2 apology, dies aged 101: reports

Japan's former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, famous for making a statement apologising over World War II, died Friday aged 101, media reports said.

Murayama, in office from 1994-1996, issued the 1995 statement on the 50th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, in which he expressed "deep remorse" over Japan's atrocities in Asia.