Birthday of 79-year-old Empress.

The 20th , Empress celebrated the birthday of 79-year-old . The feelings of the victims , " many dead , missing persons are out and Izu Oshima , we are concerned about deeply ," and a victim of typhoon No. 26 that prior to this , and responded in writing to questions Miyauchi Press Club , hit the archipelago I received a heart . Of people working in the shop floor also " now for TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to thinking about that the evacuees of the Great East Japan Earthquake is more than 280 000 people still , decommissioning work is being performed at the beginning of the answer you wrote that it " I hope the safety .For the physical condition of its own , it recalls was absent several times the public service numbness and pain in the extremities are made ​​to come out with age , and revealed within the chest , "I thought Kokorogurushiku become applying a worry for those of many " was . It predicted that " there is nothing stage to receive to continue the treatment , such as medication , for a while , or will there not be the able to spend not too much different so far in the future " and on the other hand .I spelled it "We are delighted that the good have remained " in that Crown Princess Masako visited the affected areas and the Netherlands .The thing that impressed me over the past year , it was mentioned and that Tokyo held the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic and that the constitutional debate has been actively such as newspapers increased in previous years has been determined .
Congratulations birthday . I hope that you do not overdo it , it is to be spend to health care is a body . I wish to be a period in which this year was full of grace , even for the imperial family but also for the Empress .


皇后さまは２０日、７９歳の誕生日を迎えた。これに先立ち、宮内記者会の質問に文書で回答し、列島を襲った台風２６号の被害に「伊豆大島に死者、行方不明者多数が出ており、深く案じています」と被災者の心境に心を寄せた。回答の冒頭では東日本大震災の避難者が今も２８万人を超えていることに思いをはせ、廃炉作業が行われている東京電力福島第１原発について「今も作業現場で働く人々の安全を祈っています」と記した。
　自身の体調については、加齢と共に四肢の痛みやしびれが出るようになって公務を数回欠席したと振り返り、「大勢の方に心配をかけることとなり心苦しく思っています」と胸の内を明かした。一方で「投薬などの治療を継続して受ける段階のものはなく、これからもしばらくは、今までとあまり変わりなく過ごしていけるのではないでしょうか」との見通しを示した。
　皇太子妃雅子さまがオランダや被災地を訪問したことには「よい状態が続いていることをうれしく思っています」とつづった。
　この１年で印象に残ったことには、例年に増して新聞などで盛んに憲法論議がされたことや２０２０年オリンピック・パラリンピックの東京開催が決まったことなどを挙げた。
　誕生日おめでとうございます。無理をせず、お体に留意されて健康にお過ごしになられることを願います。この一年が皇后さまにとっても皇室にとっても恵みに溢れた期間となることをお祈り致します。