The announcement of our Prime Minister's office on our Emperor and Empress possible visit to Palau in next year was special news for us. I believe that there are lots of special feeling between Japan and Micronesia.
While I realised that our Imperial family has special attention to Pacific Islands for a many decades actually since 19c, such as King Kalakaua suggested marriage with our Imperial family for avoid european invasion.
I found the list of audience to our Emperor and Empress in their official web site and pick up Pacific Countries then total up numbers of audience by country.
Number tell us.
Three Micronesia countries' head had an audience to our Emperor and Empress, every two years. Next is Kiribati and Vanuatu, every four years.
number of audience, name of country, year of independence and ratio in ()
13 Tonga - never colonized by western countries
13 FSM 1986 (2.15)
12 RMI 1986 (2.33)
10 Palau 1994 (2)
8 Kiribati 1979 (4.375)
8 Samoa 1962 (6.5)
7 Nauru 1968 (6.571)
7 Fiji 1970 (6.285)
7 Vanuatu 1980 (4.857)
6 PNG 1975 (6.5)
6 Niue 1974 (6.66)
5 Tuvalu 1978 (7.2)
5 Cooks 1965 (9.8)
4 Solomons 1978 (9)
