両陛下、国スポ開会式に　佐賀

　天皇、皇后両陛下は５日、羽田空港発の特別機で佐賀県入りし、佐賀市のＳＡＧＡスタジアムで開かれた第７８回国民スポーツ大会の総合開会式に出席された。
　１９４６年に始まった国民体育大会は今年から国民スポーツ大会に名称が変更された。天皇陛下は式典で、能登半島地震や大雨などによる犠牲者に哀悼の意を表し、被災者にお見舞いを伝達。「新たな国民スポーツ大会の幕開けとして、この大会が、長く心に残る、実り多いものとなることを期待します」とあいさつした。（2024/10/05-16:51）

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Saturday attended the general opening ceremony of the Japan Games sports festival in the southwestern prefecture of Saga.
   The Imperial couple arrived in Saga in the morning aboard a special airplane from Haneda airport in Tokyo.
   The annual sports event began in 1946 as the National Sports Festival and was rebranded as the Japan Games this year. The 2024 event is the 78th of its kind.
   In the ceremony, held at Saga Stadium in the prefecture's eponymous capital city, Emperor Naruhito paid tributes to people who died in the Jan. 1 earthquake in the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, and other disasters that struck the nation, and expressed sympathy to those who survived.
   "I hope that this tournament will endure in people's hearts and be successful as the dawn of the Japan Games," the Emperor said, referring to the rebrand.