Empress celebrates her 64th birthday

Empress Michiko, who turns 64 Oct. 20, walks in an Imperial Palace garden in Tokyo. The empress said she sees the next century as a new age of mutual help and caring in which people will go beyond the framework of the family and build greater social solidarity. ''Within this new, strong frame of solidarity, I hope to live the same age, continually attentive to occurrences in society, helping and receiving help from people,'' the empress said in written replies to questions by the Japanese media. The photo, taken Oct. 2, was provided by the Imperial Household Agency. ==Kyodo

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