Princess Aiko Leaves for Official Visit to Laos
Princess Aiko’s visit includes meetings with Lao leaders, cultural site tours, and engagements with Japanese residents, highlighting humanitarian issues at the COPE Visitor Center.
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The daughter of the emperor of Japan, Aiko, landed on Monday November 17 in Laos for her first official visit abroad. The displacement is highly symbolic for both countries, but also for her. Many of the inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago would one day wish to see the princess break the established rule, becoming in turn "tennō" ("imperatrice") of the country.
Princess Aiko Leaves for Official Laos Visit
Pool photo / The Yomiuri ShimbunPrincess Aiko greets officials before departing for Laos at Haneda Airport on Monday. Jiji Press [posttime] JST, [postdate] TOKYO — Princess Aiko left Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Monday for her visit to Laos to mark 70 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Responding to the Lao government’s invitation, …
Princess Aiko departs for Laos on her 1st official trip abroad
Princess Aiko, the only child of Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, departed Monday for Laos on her first official overseas trip to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the two counties establishing diplomatic ties.
On November 18, 2025, foreign news agencies reported that the Imperial Household Agency issued a statement stating that Princess Aiko, 23, the daughter of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, arrived in Vientiane on Monday to perform her first official overseas duties. Princess Aiko will be staying in Laos throughout the week to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Laos. She will meet wi…
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