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Written By: guyjin on May 12, 2011 No Comment
Daily Japan Headlines: Thursday, May 12, 2011

China Daily: Royal couple visits evacuees

Two months after Japan’s quake and tsunami catastrophe sparked a nuclear disaster, Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visited evacuees from the radiation zone on Wednesday.
Hundreds of well-wishers cheered and waved as the 77-year-old emperor and the empress, 76, arrived at Fukushima airport by Self-Defense Forces aircraft before changing to [...]

Written By: guyjin on November 17, 2009 No Comment

…or so you would think…

President Obama’s bow to Emperor Akihito in Tokyo over the weekend has made so many waves from Japan to the US that California should probably be on Tsunami warning… So much has already been said about it, but I thought I would just call it what it was – a gaffe.

Was [...]

Written By: guyjin on November 13, 2009 No Comment

The Emperor of Japan marked 20 years on the throne on Thursday, and was greeted by tens of thousands at a private ceremony at the Imperial Palace. The Imperial Household is a very complex issue, especially in light of the vastly divergent views of Emperor Akihito’s father, the man that presided over some of Japan’s [...]

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