Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, who are on an official visit to Belgium, attended a welcome ceremony as state guests on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The Imperial couple arrived at the square in front of the Royal Palace of Brussels, where they were greeted by King Philippe and Queen Mathilde.<\/p>\n
The Emperor was saluted by the guard of honor. He then inspected the guard with the King.<\/p>\n
After a performance of Japan’s national anthem, the Imperial couple and the royal couple were photographed together at the palace gate.<\/p>\n
Many local residents and Japanese people living in Belgium gathered at the square, waving the flags of the two countries.
The Emperor and Empress will attend a banquet hosted by the King and Queen in the evening.<\/p>\n
Japan and Belgium mark 160 years of diplomatic relations this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, who are on an official visit to Belgium, attended a welcome ceremony…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[740,7,721,4252,5599,144,5598,5602,5603,5604,5601,833,5600,5605,1593,1165],"class_list":["post-23632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-asia","tag-belgium","tag-biz","tag-japan","tag-japan-broadcasting-corporation","tag-news","tag-nhk","tag-nhk-world","tag-nhk-world-premium","tag-nhk-world-tv","tag-nhkworld","tag-nuclear","tag-public-broadcaster","tag-radio-japan","tag-tech","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116801989690296811","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}