Ms. Yoshiko, the second daughter of Prince Akishino and his wife, attended a dance competition for people with disabilities held in Tokyo and watched a dance performance.
This is the fourth time Yoshiko has attended the event, which was held by a Tokyo-based NPO that works on welfare for people with disabilities and their families, inviting people with disabilities and their families as spectators.
At the gymnasium in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, where dance performances by groups of people with disabilities and high school students were presented one after another, and Yoshiko watched with a smile while waving yellow towels and clapping in time with the music with other spectators.
After this, Yoshiko talked with the members of the dance team for people with disabilities who performed the dance, and she smiled and said, "It was a lot of fun to see a wonderful dance" and "I feel nervous in a place like this.