Tree-planting festival held in Miyazaki Prefecture

SAITO, Japan - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko (back) plant trees during an annual tree-planting festival, the 55th in annual series, held in Saito, Miyazaki Prefecture, on April 25. In an address at the festival attended by about 10,000 people, the emperor stressed the importance of forests from the viewpoint of disaster prevention and natural resources preservation.

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