Japan’s Crown Prince and Princess Akishino arrived in Paraguay on Wednesday morning, local time.<\/p>\n
They plan to travel across the country to interact with Japanese immigrants and their descendants during their visit.<\/p>\n
The couple arrived at an airport in the outskirts of the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion on board a government plane. After being greeted by the country’s foreign minister, they were welcomed with a traditional guard of honor ceremony.<\/p>\n
They later visited a memorial containing the tombs of former national leaders and people who died in war, and laid a wreath.<\/p>\n
The Crown Prince and Princess will pay a courtesy call on President Santiago Pena and attend a presidential luncheon. They will also watch Paraguay’s traditional embroidery, nanduti, being made.<\/p>\n
Their visit marks 90 years since the first Japanese immigrants arrived in the South American country.<\/p>\n
The Crown Prince and Princess are to visit La Colmena, a town and district in southern Paraguay where the immigrants first settled. They are also scheduled to visit Yguazu, a major wheat- and soybean-producing area in the east of the country to interact with Japanese immigrants and their descendants.<\/p>\n
They will return to Japan on August 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan’s Crown Prince and Princess Akishino arrived in Paraguay on Wednesday morning, local time. They plan to travel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[72,259,8,262,173,261,265,266,267,264,258,263,268,260,257],"class_list":["post-77339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-asia","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}