Prime Minister TAKAICHI’s Visit to Arlington National Cemetery and Wreath Laying Ceremony (Summary)

[Provisional translation]

In the morning of March 20 (local time, in the evening of March 20, Japan time), Ms. TAKAICHI Sanae, Prime Minister of Japan, who is visiting Washington D.C., visited Arlington National Cemetery.

Prime Minister TAKAICHI was welcomed and guided by Major General Antoinette Gant, Commanding General, Commanding General of the Joint Task Force–National Capital Region and U.S. Army Military District of Washington, Ms. Karen Durham-Aguilera, Executive Director, Office of Army Cemeteries and Army National Military Cemeteries, and Ambassador Monica Crowley, Chief of Protocol, Department of State. Prime Minister TAKAICH laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with members of each Armed Forces forming lines and the Japanese and U.S. national anthems being performed.

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