TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s emperor left for Vietnam on Tuesday to meet families of Japanese soldiers sent there by his father more than seven decades earlier during World War II. The 83-year-old Akihito and his wife, Michiko, are making their first visit to the country, the latest in a series of trips to former battlegrounds. “It is our hope that our visit to Vietnam will contribute to the further development of the mutual understanding […]