Emperor Akihito honors Japanese war dead in Philippines

[fred]

With a mournful bow, Emperor Akihito paid his respects in a war memorial in the Philippines Friday to the largest number of Japanese invasion troops who died outside their homeland in World War II.
Clad in black and accompanied by Empress Michiko, he and Michiko each laid a bouquet of white chrysanthemums, Japan's imperial symbol, and silently prayed near a marble cenotaph in the Japanese memorial garden along Lake Caliraya in Laguna province southeast of the Philippine capital. Some of the 170 relatives of Japanese soldiers wept quietly.


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[jake]

The guy at the back of the first picture obviously doesn't suffer from shy bladder syndrome

Sir Arthur posted a similar thread last week
http://filipinaroses.com/showthread....To-Philippines

[Terpe]

The guy at the back of the first picture obviously doesn't suffer from shy bladder syndrome

Sir Arthur posted a similar thread last week
http://filipinaroses.com/showthread....To-Philippines

well spotted

[Arthur Little]

The guy at the back of the first picture obviously doesn't suffer from shy bladder syndrome

Sir Arthur posted a similar thread last week

http://filipinaroses.com/showthread....To-Philippines

Ah ... was the one in which I'd speculated as to whether this State visit had been to *empress (*spelling intended) and/or was in atonement for "the sins of the father".

At least Fred's thread elicited a reply ... ... mine didn't.