TOKYO: Looking smart in a black baju Melayu and songket gold embroidered sampin, complete with songkok, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad created another first as he became the first Asian leader in office to receive one of the highest Japanese awards from Emperor Akihito.
The Prime Minister was conferred the “Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers” in a ceremony at the Imperial Palace here yesterday.
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