Visiting French President Emmanuel Macron met with Japanese Emperor Naruhito and his wife Empress Masako on Thursday before going to Osaka to attend the Group of 20 summit starting the next day.Macron is the second foreign leader after U.S. President Donald Trump to meet the new emperor, who ascended the throne on May 1 as his father, former Emperor Akihito, abdicated at the end of April, the first Japanese monarch to do so in more than 200 years.During the meeting at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, the emperor thanked Macron for sending him a congratulatory message on the occasion of the his…READ FULL ARTICLE