Emperor Empress Watching National Table Tennis Competition Ibaraki Hitachi September 29, 17:01
The Emperor and Empress attended a table tennis game on the 29th, the National Sports Festival of the National Sports Festival.
On the 28th, both Majesty attended the opening ceremony of the national polity and visited the table tennis competition venue in Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture on the 29th.
In the gymnasium of the venue, the first match of the adult boys and the second match of the adult women were played in parallel.
His Majesty sometimes nodded with explanations and gesturing like waving rackets to watch the players' passionate play.
After this, Majesty visited a research institute in Hitachi City that worked on improving tree varieties for forestry.
And we saw a particularly fast-growing cedar tree called the “elite tree” born by crossing fast-growing varieties.
Both Majesty received explanations that the growth cost could be reduced by growing fast in front of a tree that grew to a height of over 8 meters in seven years. It was spoken with impressed.