【明報專訊】THIS ISSUE of Ming Pao includes an interview with former Japanese prime minister Tomiichi Murayama. To reporters from Hong Kong, the nonagenarian statesman again talked about how Japan ought to look at wars of aggression. He was at the helm of the government in the mid-1990s. In 1995, the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II (WWII), he made the Murayama Statement (about historical issues) in his capacity as prime minister. In it he expressed feeling of "deep remorse" and offered a "heartfelt apology" for Japan's colonial rule and acts of aggression. China, South Korea and other countries then expected the spirit of the Murayama Statement to become the principle by which and the standpoint from which Japan would look at history.