Tomiichi Murayama

was a Japanese politician. He served as the 81st Prime Minister of Japan from 30 June 1994 to 11 January 1996. 

He was the head of the Social Democratic Party of Japan (until 1996, the Japan Socialist Party) and the first socialist prime minister in nearly fifty years. He is most remembered today for his speech "On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the war's end," in which he said sorry for what his country of Japan did over World War II.

Murayama was born on Ōita, Japan in 3 March 1924. He studied at Meiji University. Murayama turned 100 on 3 March 2024,村山富市元首相　きょう100歳の誕生日「日本がどこまでも平和な国であるように」  FNN (Japanese) March 3, 2024 and died on 17 October 2025, at the age of 101.

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