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#142
05-12-2006, 01:29 AM
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Thanks for the article and picures, Madyy.
I especially love the ones from Hello, so great to see the Emperor and Empress chatting and playing with the kids. 
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#143
05-12-2006, 05:07 AM
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from kunaicho website
 Above May 8, 2006. #1: April 28, 2006.-Emperor Akihito visited Mitaka Kohki Co.,Ltd. in Tokyo. #2-3: Emperor Akihito presented the spring decorations at Imperial Palace on May 9, 2006. The Emperor then spoke to the recipients and their spouse #4: May 10, 2006. -Empress Michiko feeds mulberry leaves to silkworms with the help of sericulture center chief Yoshisuke Sato at the facility in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo Wednesday, May 10, 2006. |
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#144
05-12-2006, 07:20 AM
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#145
05-12-2006, 08:09 AM
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Empress Michiko (L) and Emperor Akihito talk with members of the Japanese Turin Olympic team during a reception at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on May 12.
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#146
05-12-2006, 08:14 AM
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#147
05-13-2006, 11:22 PM
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May 14, 2006.
The Emperor and Empress took a 30 min walk around the outside of the Imperial Palace this morning at around 7am. Below from TBS news  #1: FNN news #2: ANN news #3: Asahi news Last edited by mandyy; 05-15-2006 at 09:40 AM. |
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#148
05-15-2006, 07:07 AM
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May 15, 2006.
In this photo released by Imperial Household Agency of Japan, Empress Michiko binds an oak twig up with a strip of Japanese paper pasted with silkworm eggs during the annual event called "yama tsuke" at the sericulture center in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo Monday, May 15, 2006. Michiko symbolically raises silkworms as part of the Japanese tradition and some of the silk produced in the palace is used for a revival of old textile material of historical value kept by the imperial family at Shosoin Repository in Nara, western Japan. #1: Mainichi news #2: Polfoto   In this photo released by Imperial Household Agency of Japan, Emperor Akihito plants rice seedlings in a paddy field in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo Tuesday, May 16, 2006. Grown rice will be harvested by the emperor to be presented during the annual thanksgiving imperial rites at the palace in November. #1: Polfoto #2: JIJI press   Last edited by mandyy; 05-16-2006 at 08:46 AM. |
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#149
05-15-2006, 08:05 AM
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Polfoto 16-05-2006 In this photo released by Imperial Household Agency of Japan, Emperor Akihito plants rice seedlings in a paddy field in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo Tuesday, May 16, 2006. Grown rice will be harvested by the emperor to be presented during the annual thanksgiving imperial rites at the palace in November
Last edited by fanletizia; 05-16-2006 at 08:42 AM. |
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#150
05-16-2006, 02:48 AM
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Dismay over Cup omission
.............On Tuesday, Zico and four top stars were given the first-ever palace sendoff for a soccer team as they were received by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko.................... http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.a...003412,00.html The imperial couple (Emperor and Empress) invited to the Imperial palace on May 16, 2006 coach Zico, Saburo Kawabuchi, president of the Japan Football Association, and four players on Japan's squad for the World Cup. Emperor Akihito, Empress Michiko meet with World Cup members http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstP...?photoid=13045 http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstP...?photoid=13048 Last edited by mandyy; 05-16-2006 at 08:58 AM. |
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#152
05-18-2006, 01:21 AM
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Thank you merampo. The Empress looks very elegant and I love the two-tone colour of her gown.
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#153
05-18-2006, 04:05 PM
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U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and Mrs. Annan meet with His Majesty Emperor Akihito and Her Majesty Michiko the Empress of Japan Thursday May 18, 2006 at the Imperial Palace. Annan on Thursday called for a cooling of the rhetoric in the standoff over Iran's nuclear program, saying he hoped current Security Council discussions would give new momentum toward a solution. Annan's comments, in an advance text of a speech at Japan's prestigious Tokyo University
from polfoto Last edited by fanletizia; 05-18-2006 at 04:11 PM. |
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#154
05-24-2006, 11:04 AM
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In this photo released by Imperial Household Agency of Japan, Empress Michiko, left, picks silkworms to put them onto beds, shown rear center, to make cocoons with the help of sericulture center chief Yoshisuke Sato during the annual sericultural work called 'Jozoku' in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo Wednesday, May 24, 2006. As part of the Japanese tradition of sericulture the empress symbolically raises silkworms and some of the silk will be used to reproduce old textile material of historical value preserved by the palace
from yahoo/ap |
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#156
05-25-2006, 12:30 AM
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May 20-22
Emperor, empress attend annual tree-planting ceremony An annual tree-planting ceremony took place Sunday in Gero, Gifu Prefecture, with Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko taking part.................. http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060521/kyodo/d8hnvpc80.html #1,4,6: Mainici news #2,5: JIJI press #3,4: Yomiuri news #7: Sankei web Last edited by mandyy; 05-25-2006 at 07:21 AM. |
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#157
05-25-2006, 12:34 AM
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Photo released by the Imperial Household Agency of Japan shows Emperor Akihito greeting Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo 23 May 2006. Badawi is on a weeklong visit to Japan.
#1: Profimedia #2: JIJI press |
