Approaching the Seventieth Anniversary of the End of the War

In 1995, Prime Minister Murayama Tomiichi made what is seen by many as the definitive Japanese statement on the country’s wartime past. (© Jiji Press)

Two-year-old Abe Shinzō (left) plays with grandfather (then Prime Minister) Kishi Nobusuke and older brother Hironobu in 1956. (© Mainichi Shimbun/Aflo)