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...Please keep your spirits high,'' urged EMPRESS MICHIKO, gently touching the hands of refugees at an emergency shelter in Kobe. One woman, overcome with emotion, wept when the Empress, who is usually kept at a distance from ordinary Japanese, tenderly embraced her. Protocol yielded to compassion as the Empress accompanied Emperor Akihito on an eight-hour visit to the stricken city, stopping at a site where many had died to place a bouquet of daffodils from the gardens of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Their tour of the disaster area was delayed two weeks, so as not to interfere with...
Sidestepping the political and economic frictions that have abraded U.S.-Japanese relations of late, President Clinton welcomed Emperor Akihito and his wife Empress Michiko to the White House -- and to his Administration's first state dinner -- for a day of ceremony focused on goodwill and cooperation...
Amid increasingly strained U.S.-Japanese relations, Emperor Akihito and his wife Empress Michiko arrived in Atlanta to begin a 16-day goodwill visit...
With a parade of receptions intended to showcase American cuisine and the Clinton style of entertaining, the President and First Lady are tonight throwing their first official state dinner for Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko. The imperial couple arrived in the Green Room, faced a reception in the Yellow Oval Room, then white-tie state dinner in the Rose Garden, and finally an after-dinner coffee in the Blue Room. Substantive issues between the two countries were not on the plate. The monarch's role in Japan is purely ceremonial...
Always popular, she has risen in stature through the years and has now passed the word that she will be Owada's ally. Says Inoguchi: "The royal family are guardians of tradition, but in wider choices, they go ahead. Michiko dared to bring up her own children. Naruhito is marrying a career woman." Poet Machi Tawara, who is Owada's contemporary, notes that she "chose her own timing. We can identify with that. There's a lot of talk about the crown prince saying 'I will put all my might in protecting you my entire life.' Some of my friends...