Princess Mako's precedent-setting marriage has highlighted the fact that other imperial family members including male heirs to the throne could leave the household in the future.
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Emperor Naruhito waves during the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics at the National Stadium in the capital on Friday. | REUTERS
KYODO Jul 25, 2021
The conspicuous absence of the word “celebrating” in the Japanese version of Emperor Naruhito’s opening declaration for the Tokyo Olympics reflects a public deeply divided over whether the Games should be going ahead amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Postponed a year by the global outbreak of COVID-19, the Olympics officially began Friday with a spectatorless ceremony at the 68,000-capacity National Stadium.
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This scene from restored footage shows Suh Jung-woo, right, on a visit to Battleship Island with Park Soo-nam. (Provided by Park Soo-nam)
CHIGASAKI, Kanagawa Prefecture Suh Jung-woo was only 14 when he was taken to Hashima island off Nagasaki during World War II and made to work in a coal mine.
“It was 37 to 38 degrees in the pit. I felt so thirsty from the heat, and I could seldom stand the pain,” Suh, an ethnic Korean, recalled of his misery in an interview in 1985.
“I ate 20 percent unpolished rice and 80 percent bean cake, as well as sardines cooked whole in an iron pot. I often suffered from stomach troubles.”