Assassination FOILED!!

Though cunningly disguised, I might have stopped a national tragedy by spotting these two suspicious police. Assassination attempt on Japan's emperor from Britain with Paddington Bear FOILED!

So yesterday was the emperor's birthday. Only 5 days in the country and the emperor wants to meet me! Well, it seems that the rest of the country was invited too when I got there, but that's okay. I'm for the people, and they can share my one-on-one time.

The crowd goes wild when the emperor is announced and Imperial Guard

It seems that a lot of what the police do here is public relations by being great guides and generally not doing much else, but they are very helpful. It seems that everything is really kept in check, and people here just stick to the rules as such. To show you my point, there are not many, if any, other places where a policeman ordering big crowds where to go would have a symbol like this on his elevated command post...

The crowds were for the emperor's birthday when the imperial palace gates are open to the public. This happens only twice a year, so I'm lucky to be here at the right time. There were also some CIA looking Japanese I had not seen before, which seemed not to have any of the PR skills the police had, well except for the grumpy old policeman below (I think he saw me taking his picture ha). The guys below were in the crowd with everyone, so subject to my camera ha, but I'm glad the 'CIA' one didn't seem to notice, see if you can see the difference between the police and the CIA looking guys...

The walk to and from the Imperial Palace was quite nice. Here are some pictures of the things on the way...

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