The Emperor celebrated his 87th birthday on the 23rd.
According to the Imperial Household Agency, the Emperor, along with the Empress, deeply considers that the infection of the new coronavirus is spreading at home and abroad and has a great impact on people's health and daily life, and understands and infects infectious diseases. He has been interested in medical and social efforts to prevent it.
While social activities are severely restricted by the spread of the infection, it is worried that the activities of Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers, who have supported them in various ways, will also be affected.
In addition, my feelings toward Okinawa have not changed, and I am saddened by the burning of Shuri Castle and hope that the reconstruction will proceed steadily. In addition, the mayor of Iitate Village in Fukushima Prefecture, who was evacuated due to the Great East Japan Earthquake, retired. When it was reported, he was thinking about the future situation of the disaster area while looking back on the time when he visited the sympathy.
At the temporary residence of Sento Temporary Gosho, where I have lived since the end of March this year, I continue to take a walk in the morning and evening with the Empress, and take infection prevention measures twice a week at the Institute of Biology in the Imperial Palace. It means that a new treatise on gobiidae fish is nearing completion.
Although the empress has no particular problems with her physical condition, as she grows older, she often asks the empress about past events, so even if she sometimes misunderstands or is confused, the two of them will be together. It means that he is renewing his memory while laughing.
On the birthday of the Emperor, all events, including bookkeeping, will be canceled as the spread of the infection has made people's lives even more difficult.
Imperial Household Agency releases video
The video released by the Imperial Household Agency on the occasion of the Emperor's birthday shows the Emperor walking with the Empress in the garden of her temporary residence in Minato-ku, Tokyo on the 24th of last month.
The empress walked slowly with her arms crossed, looking at the roses and mandarin trees that bloomed in the flowerbed with a smile.