HONOLULU — The Japanese government has announced Prince Fumihito and Princess Kiko will visit Hawaii for the first time next month.
HONOLULU — The Japanese government has announced Prince Fumihito and Princess Kiko will visit Hawaii for the first time next month.
Prince Fumihito, the second son of Japan’s Emperor Akihito, and his wife, Princess Kiko, are expected to visit Oahu from June 4 to June 8, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported .
Deputy Consul General of the Consulate General of Japan in Honolulu, Takayuki Shinozawa, said the visit is to build connections with Japanese abroad.
“It’s approved by the cabinet,” Shinozawa said. “We’re all so excited.”
The couple will visit sites on Oahu but will not travel to neighbor islands.
The announcement came shortly after a media briefing Monday for the upcoming commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the first Japanese immigrants moving to Hawaii.
Fumihito is the second son of Japan’s Emperor Akihito, who announced in December that he would step down from the Chrysanthemum Throne on April 30, 2019.
Akihito will be succeeded by his eldest son, Crown Prince Naruhito.
Prince Fumihito, 52, would then ascend to the role of crown prince.
Japanese where here for only 150 years and they already have airports named after them, stadiums,highways and almost everything else. Hawaiians where here from the beginning and there is not an airport named after a Hawaiian. I heard that now they want to rename Kealakehe school after a Japanese person,What. I wanted to name a road and they said it had to be a Hawaiian name,why when they name any place without a Hawaiian name. Might as well rename Hawaii to something more soothing to the poor Japanese people. Like Naruhito Islands………………………………..