The head of Japan’s biggest business lobby has called on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to compile a statement on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in consideration of the relationship with China and South Korea.
“I hope (Abe) will issue a statement that would be able to garner international understanding and sympathy,” Keidanren chief Sadayuki Sakakibara said in a recent interview.
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