Former Japanese prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, who passed away on Friday morning in the city of Oita at the age of 101, leaves behind a notable legacy of confronting history squarely and striving for cross-border friendship among neighboring nations.

Nearly twenty years after a deadly nerve gas on attack on the Tokyo subway, police in Japan have tracked down the final remaining fugitive from the group that was responsible. Katsuya Takahashi, 54, was arrested at an internet cafe in Tokyo, just two ...