Akihito: The Japanese emperor with the human touch

On a beautiful spring morning last week, I stood on a street corner on the western outskirts of Tokyo. For hundreds of metres in each direction, the road was lined, three-deep, with eager, excited faces. Then, with almost no warning, a large black limousine approached over a bridge, motorcycle outriders on either side. As the car slipped by, for a few brief moments, we could see Emperor Akihito an

[Nean]

岡目八目感ある。

[kazutox]

by Rupert Wingfield-Hayes

[hakaiya]

日本絡みとなると珍記事を書くBBCも良記事書くね。