TOKYO: Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah and Raja Permaisuri Agong Tunku Hajah Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah were among the 185 heads of state and foreign dignitaries who witnessed the enthronement ceremony of Japan’s Emperor Naruhito at the Imperial Palace yesterday.

Sultan Abdullah, who donned the Army No. 1 ceremonial dress, and Tunku Azizah, who was in a pink baju kurung, were accompanied by Malaysian Ambassador to Japan Datuk Kennedy Jawan to the historic ceremony that marks the accession of a new emperor of the Land of the Rising Sun.