Japan's Princess Mako, the eldest granddaughter of Emperor Akihito, left for Brazil on Tuesday for her two-week trip to attend ceremonies marking the 110th anniversary of the first arrival of Japanese immigrants there.

The 26-year-old princess departed Tokyo's Haneda airport and is expected to arrive in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday morning. She will visit 14 cities in five states and meet with local people of Japanese descent. She will return home on July 31.

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In her fourth official trip overseas, Princess Mako will visit Mt. Corcovado, the site of the Christ the Redeemer statue, before moving on Thursday to the southern state of Parana where many Japanese descendants live.

On Saturday, she will give an address at a commemorative ceremony in Sao Paulo, the home to the largest Japanese community in the country.

In her previous official duties overseas, she visited El Salvador and Honduras in December 2015, Paraguay in September 2016 and Bhutan in June 2017.

It is her first official trip abroad since the Imperial Household Agency announced in February that she will postpone her marriage to her university classmate Kei Komuro, also 26, until 2020 from the initially announced November 2018 due to a "lack of preparation."


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