Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida leads the wreath-laying ceremony at the Rizal Monument in Manila on Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. National Hero Jose Rizal visited Japan in 1888. At Hibiya Park in Tokyo, a bust of Rizal and a stone marker below it were erected by the Rizal Society of Japan because the hotel where Rizal stayed eight years before his death was located near the park. Joey O. Razon