The night before Japan elected Sanae Takaichi as its first female prime minister, Her Imperial Highness Princess Hitachi helped the Japan Art Association host its annual Praemium Imperiale ceremony in Tokyo.

The 36th annual event honored this year’s laureates — painter Peter Doig, sculptor Marina Abramović, architect Eduardo Souto de Moura, musician András Schiff and filmmaker Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. The gathering attracted former U.S. Secretary of State and former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, former Chancellor of the University of Oxford Lord Patten of Barnes, former Italian Prime Minister Lamberto Dini and former prime minister Fumio Kishida, each of whom shared some congratulatory remarks.

Established in 1988 by the Japan Art Association, the Praemium Imperiale is a gl

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