MK Zvi Hauser (Blue and White) criticized the decision not to send an official Israeli delegation to crown the Emperor of Japan.
"Japan, a country of more than 125 million and the fourth largest economy in the world, has representatives from more than 180 countries to crown the new Emporer. The State of Israel, with proven traditional secularism, did not consider it appropriate to send a high-level delegation to honor the Japanese on their important day. They abandoned the arena to Abbas and the rest of the world. Shameful and saddening," Hauser said.