Queen Maxima and King Willem-Alexander on state visit to Japan - hellomagazine.com
This is so different from how the Dutch and other European colonial powers swept into the East, including Japan a couple of centuries ago. In historical terms, with the long view, this is a telling and touching photograph. East meets West very cordially and as equals.
In terms of international diplomacy, this shows the closest bond at the highest level between a representative of the European Union and Japan. The Chinese must be feeling very left-out. Perhaps if they re-instated their Emperor things might be different. It is a much more polite way of expressing it publicly than shared military exercises, which probably do happen but in private, or meetings between military leaders, such as the head of NATO and the Japanese PM. The existence of Monarchy serves a useful purpose. Perhaps we will see the world line up as Monarchies versus Republics. It could develop without anyone really noticing the correlation.
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