Aug. 15 (UPI) -- In an address at the National Memorial Ceremony for the War Dead in Tokyo, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba called for remorse over Japan's actions during World War II.
"Eighty years have now passed since the war ended," Ishiba said in a speech Friday that Japanese prime ministers deliver each year at the memorial. "Today, generations with no firsthand experience of war make up the great majority. We must never again repeat the horrors of war."
"We must never again lose our way," he added. "We must now take deeply into our hearts once again our remorse and also the lessons learned from that war."
His predecessors Shinzo Abe, Yoshihide Suga and Fumio Kishida hadn't mentioned the word "remorse" when they delivered the prime minister's address annually since Abe first left out the word from his speech in 2013.
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