By Jojo Dass
SAIPAN, CNMI (Marianas Variety, ) - The Marianas Visitors Authority is coordinating with its Japan office to obtain more details about a report in Tokyo that Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko are planning official visits to the CNMI, the Marshalls, the Federated States of Micronesia and Palau from February to early March next year.
Jonas Ogren, MVA managing director, told reporters the agency is trying to verify the report, published last June 26 by one of Japan’s leading newspapers, the Yomiuri Shimbun.
The 129-year-old Yomiuri Shimbun is considered the world’s largest newspaper with a daily circulation of 14 million.
Ogren said MVA would contact Japan’s foreign ministry and the imperial household agency, which, according to the report, are planning a 10-day tour of the CNMI, the Marshalls, the FSM and Palau, "starting around Feb. 27 and ending around March 7."
The Northern Marianas, the Marshalls, the FSM and Palau are...