A Brief History of Royals in America

Emperor Akihito, 2009
In May 1994, the son of Japan's wartime emperor was scheduled to be the first Japanese leader to visit Pearl Harbor. Instead, hoping to avoid tough questions from his subjects, Emperor Akihito and his wife Michiko visited the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, where 34,000 veterans of World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam are interred. The Emperor and his wife returned to Hawaii 15 years later, again paying their respects by laying a wreath at the National Memorial Cemetery.

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