By My Pham | HANOI
Japan’s Emperor Akihito met the Vietnamese families of Japanese World War Two soldiers on Thursday on his first visit to Vietnam, one of many trips he has used to try to soothe the wounds of war.
Some 16 descendants of marriages between Vietnamese women and Japanese soldiers met Emperor Akihito, 83, and Empress Michiko, 82, including 94-year-old widow Nguyen Thi Xuan. Most of the family members were in their 60s.
“We would like to share our understanding toward your difficult time in the past,” the empress told Xuan.
While most Japanese soldiers returned
source http://www.omnipopmag.com/2017/03/02/japanese-emperor-meets-former-soldiers039-families-in-vietnam/
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