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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.

Summary by The Japan Times
After arriving in Vientiane, Princess Aiko will pay a courtesy call to Laotian President Thongloun Sisoulith and attend a dinner hosted by Vice President Pany Yathotou on Tuesday.

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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.

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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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Kyodo News+ broke the news in Japan on Monday, November 17, 2025.
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