Prince Akishino visits Hawaii to commemorate Japanese immigration

Prince Akishino and his wife Princess Kiko arrived in Hawaii on Monday for a six-day official visit to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Japanese immigration to the islands.On the first day, the prince, the younger son of Emperor Akihito, and the princess laid a wreath at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, which commemorates U.S. soldiers who died during World War II and the Vietnam War, and visited two cenotaphs for Japanese immigrants.They also visited a monument in Honolulu dedicated to nine people, including four high school students, who died in a 2001 collision off Oahu…READ FULL ARTICLE