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The Japanese Imperial Courts: The Imperial Reigning Couple on a peaceful mission to the Philippines

The Emperor is in the Philippines arrived Tuesday for a historic visit to the pilgrimage-like memorials of the Second World War, 71 years after the liberation of archipel. His Majesty Emperor Akihito, 82, made tributes to the victims of Japanese and non-Japanese war a pillar of his reign of nearly three decades, called Heisei or "fulfillment of the peace" in the presence of Her Majesty Empress Michiko for a five-day stay

"Many Filipinos, Americans and Japanese were killed in the Philippines during the war," said Akihito in a ceremony before leaving Tokyo.
"We want to make this visit still having that in mind."
Clearly pacifist message of the emperor, who was greeted on the tarmac in Manila by the Philippine President Benigno Aquino, in contrast to the nationalist bias of the Japanese government.
The Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seeks to revise the pacifist constitution inherited from the American occupation after the war, to give a more active role in Japan on the international stage.
Akihito has visited other places where soldiers and Japanese civilians have led desperate fighting on behalf of his father Hirohito.
In Philippines, where battles took place among the most terrible of world conflict in Asia, the Imperial couple visited the Cemetery of Heroes memorial Filipino soldiers killed. They also bow before a monument to the victims of the Japanese conflit.Cette visit aims to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the restoration of diplomatic relations.
Over the decades, Manila and Tokyo have become allies. Japan is the largest foreign investor in the Philippines, which it supplies its largest subsidy. Manila also relies increasingly on Tokyo in its territorial disputes with Beijing in méridionale.
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The Japanese Imperiale &Royal Courts: Crown Prince Masako illuminates the annual fall gathering

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Thursday November 12th, the traditional autumn garden party organized every year at the Imperial Garden in Tokyo Akasaka by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko.
And unlike the previous decade, Japanese Imperial Highness Crown Princess Masako was present among the members of the Imperial family who had were invite.
She had been conspicuously absent as for the fall garden party ago a year, and for the Annual Spring garden party in April 21. But on November 12, Crown Princess Masako, wife of Crown Prince Naruhito, the eldest son of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko.
And she could not go unnoticed, as she lit up the event by her outfit. She had indeed opted for a bright purple together and was wearing a hat exactly the same tone exceed letting her long black hair dressed in Western assemble. Equally, while they were in kimonos for garden parties last fall and this spring, Empress Michiko and her other daughter in law Princess Kiko, who recently came back from an official trip to Brazil with her husband Prince Akishino, had opted for the first fit and bibi in shades of gray the second for a white suit and matching hat. Alongside Kiko stood their eldest daughter Princess Mako, 24 years old who was sported a coral coordinated a brown hat with a big flower in the same color as her dress and jacket. The latter had also missed the previous two receptions in the imperial Akasaka Garden as she was attending school for her master in the United Kingdom for in the greatest secrecy.
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The Japanese Imperial and Royal Courts: Princess Kiko in traditional while in Brazil, and the Royal Couple's Brazilian trip

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Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko of Japan on Brasilia, November 5 2015.

It was the highlight of their trip to Brazil. Prince Akishino, second son of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, and his wife Princess Kiko celebrated this Thursday in Brasilia the 120th anniversary of the establishment of bilateral relations between Japan and Brazil before to meet the next President of the country Dilma Rousseff.
On November 5, 1895, Japan and Brazil knotted their first diplomatic ties and on November 5, 2015, 120 years to the day later, a ceremony was held at the Congress in Brasilia to mark the anniversary in the presence of Prince Akishino of Japan and his wife Princess Kiko. For the occasion, the Princess was sported in a traditional dress. She wore a cream kimono adorned grounds in aquatic plants and boats in shades of blue, orange and brun. The 49 years Imperial Princess was even seen in a kimono on Friday, November 6 in the morning to meet with her husband, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff at the Presidential Palace Planalto. Also very refined one, powder pink and cream, was decorated with flowers. However, it is dressed in western the mom of three on Thursday visited, always in the company of Prince Akishino, a Brazilian agricultural research company or discussed with the Japanese resident settled in Brazil at a reception held at the residence of the Japanese ambassador to Prince Akishino of Japan Brasilia. The Imperial couple conducted a twelve-day visit to Brazil, from October 28 to November 8. Besides Brasilia, stay were steps in Sao Paulo -where they are arrivés-, Campo Grande, Curitiba, Londrina, Rolândia, Maringa, Miranda, Belem and Rio de Janeiro. The Akishino Prince had already visited Brazil in 1988 to mark the 80th anniversary of the arrival in the country of Kasato Maru, the ship that had brought the first Japanese immigrants. Recall that the countries of South America is home to the largest Japanese community outside Japan. Which has about 1.5 million people.

Prince Akishino, second son of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, and his wife Princess Kiko arrived in Sao Paulo on Wednesday October 28th and began a twelve-day visit to celebrate the 120 years bonds of friendship with Japan and Brazil.
This was the objective of their Imperial Highnesses' presences in Brazil from October 28 to November 8.
The highlight of this visit, a ceremony commemorating the 120th anniversary of the establishment of bilateral relations between the two countries which took place at the National Congress in Brasilia. The couple also met formally in the Brazilian capital President Dilma Rousseff.

To begin their trip in Sao Paulo, Akishino and Kiko went to Ibirapuera Park, the second largest city park where they planted a tree near the Monument to the pioneers of Japanese immigration. All in white and beige and wearing a matching hat, Princess Kiko threw food to carp Japanese garden pavilion. The Museum of the History of Japanese Immigration was also their programme.Ce Thursday, were still in Sao Paulo where they were received at the Palacio dos Bandeirantes by Geraldo Alckmin, Governor of the State, and his wife. Her Imperial Highness was then coated a traditional kimono. They also visited the Instituto Butantan, a biomedical research center, and met with elderly Japanese to Guarulhos. And after Sao Paulo and Brasilia, the royal couple also visited in Campo Grande, Curitiba, Londrina, Rolândia , Maringa, Miranda, Belem and Rio de Janeiro.