2000: Japan secularism

 Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori apologizes for controversial remarks that undermined the country’s constitutional guarantee of secularism, when he told a Shinto religious group that Japan was a “divine country with an emperor at its core.”

 

 

To: 
General public
From: 
Japan
Year of Apology: 
2000
Footnote: 
French, Howard W. “Japan: Premier’s Apology.” New York Times. May 18, 2000.