With Toyota Motor Corporation at the top, Aichi Prefecture is home to the headquarters and factories of 1,467 companies including Toyota Group mega suppliers such as Denso and Aishin, and Tier 2 and lower parts companies.
On April 7, 2025, Japan quietly embarked on a solemn journey of remembrance marking eighty years since the end of World War II. Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress chose as their first destination Iwo Jima, one of the fiercest and bloodiest battlefields of the Pacific War. That morning, the Imperial couple departed the Imperial Palace, boarded a government aircraft at Haneda Airport, and after a flight of about two and a half hours, landed on the isolated island approximately 1,200 kilometers south of Tokyo. This was their first-ever visit to Iwo Jima.
For the president of Taiwan (Republic of China), which has diplomatic relations with just 13 countries as of May 2023, visits abroad are not that often.