Overview
- At Okuma’s Manabiya Yumenomori, which the family visited Tuesday, students shared projects on rebuilding and their career dreams.
- Emperor Naruhito encouraged people driving local recovery, telling them please keep up the good work.
- In Tomioka they toured the archive museum’s exhibits, including a police car wrecked by the 2011 tsunami, and the empress said it was heartbreaking.
- The trip included the first imperial visit to the two towns that host the Fukushima Daiichi plant since the 2011 accident, according to local reports.
- After Monday’s memorial stop in Futaba and an overnight at J‑Village, the imperial couple issued a statement that urged Japan to preserve the disaster’s memories and lessons.