Emperor Hirohito — "It is regrettable that the war has caused such suffering to my people and to the…"
It is regrettable that the war has caused such suffering to my people and to the peoples of the world.
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Post-war public statement, often interpreted as an apology without explicitly using the word.
Date: 1950s
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