I'm feeling rather pleased. I wrote off to the Japanese Prime Minister yesterday, expressing my views on the succession issue. Getting in touch with him requires you to fill out a short form giving your age, country and e-mail address. I hope a sixteen year old Indian monarchist writing to him is unusual enough to solicit a response. I tried to keep it in the same tone as his slightly literary speeches. I also tried to keep the sentimentality attune to the sort exuded by Japanese haikus. One the whole, I think, I was fairly successful. The line “I sincerely hope that Japan’s forward thinking people will be able to implement an historic step such as this in the near future and once again show the world that Japan is indeed The Land of the Rising Sun”, I think, was well writ, though I do say so myself.