Four-panel comic 'Yurari', episode 38: after reading about the King's departure, Yurari tries to join the send-off at the airport, but can't make it past the newsroom window.
Panel 1: Yurari: "(I want to see him off too...!)"
Panel 2: (pitter-patter-patter)
Panel 3: (thunk)
Panel 4: Shioiri: "Haneda's a bit far from here, you know."
King Kaie III of Rukai, 34, departed Tokei via the Haneda Air Route on the morning of the 22nd, concluding the four-day itinerary of the first-ever visit by a reigning Rukai monarch, which began on the 19th. The Foreign Ministry and the Imperial Household Agency announced at his departure that they had reached basic agreement, in principle, on a reciprocal visit to Rukai by Mayor Motoko Ukai, targeted for sometime next year. Separately, Lord Chamberlain Tui Makalea, 52, who accompanied the King throughout the visit, revealed at a briefing that the King had informally met with music teacher Ushio Kishiura, 74, a first-generation Drifter, on the evening of the 21st — a brief meeting that appeared nowhere on the official schedule.