{"id":1185391,"date":"2026-09-04T04:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T04:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1185391\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T04:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T04:36:17","slug":"japans-crown-prince-and-crown-princess-to-attend-funeral-for-norway-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1185391\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s crown prince and crown princess to attend funeral for Norway king"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko will visit Norway for three days from Tuesday to attend a funeral for the late King Harald V, according to a plan approved by the Japanese government at a Cabinet meeting Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The funeral will be held at Oslo Cathedral in the Norwegian capital on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to Japan\u2019s Imperial Household Agency, the Norwegian royal family informed Emperor Naruhito of the funeral.<\/p>\n<p>Given the Imperial Family\u2019s tradition of not having the emperor attend funerals and the fact that Emperor Naruhito, then-Crown Prince, attended the 1991 funeral of King Olav V, father of the late King Harald V, the emperor decided to send the Crown Prince and Crown Princess to next week\u2019s funeral.<\/p>\n<p>Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko will leave Japan from Tokyo\u2019s Haneda Airport on a government plane Tuesday morning. They will return home Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko will visit Norway for three days from Tuesday to attend a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1185392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7708],"tags":[313565,313566,282126,1115,321354,5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":["post-1185391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-royals","tag-crown-prince-akishino","tag-crown-princess-kiko","tag-imperial-family","tag-norway","tag-norway-japan-relations","tag-royal","tag-royal-families","tag-royal-family","tag-royals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117210918630537486","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1185392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}