Overview
- Emmanuel Macron, who was received Thursday at Tokyo’s Imperial Palace, lunched with Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako.
- He departed after the luncheon for South Korea to meet President Lee Jae‑myung.
- Earlier in the day he met Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and toured Astroscale, which works on removing junk from Earth’s orbit.
- Macron highlighted Astroscale’s French subsidiary and its partnership with Exotrail as proof of concrete industrial links.
- He said space sustainability would be a core theme of France’s G7 presidency this year after Japan put the issue at the center of its agenda.