PERHAPS there is a case, on commercial grounds, for inviting the Japanese emperor to visit this country.
But there is no justification whatsoever for gratuitously awarding him our highest order of chivalry - the Order of the Garter.
This is indeed the final humiliation of those Britons and our allies who fought in the Far East and were taken prisoner by the Japanese.
That Emperor Akihito should lay a wreath at the grave of the Unknown Soldier in Westminster Abbey is distasteful and utterly hypocritical. This visit does nothing for British prestige.
C A BAKEWELL, St James Road, Blackburn.
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