Michael Jackson visits Tokyo orphanage
05/28/2006
Michael Jackson visited an orphanage in Tokyo on Sunday in one of the pop star's first public appearances since his acquittal last June on child molestation charges in the United States.
Michael Jackson Pop star Michael Jackson visited a Tokyo children's home on Sunday and told a group of 140 excited children "I love you" in Japanese.
The 47-year-old entertainer, who appeared in public on Saturday for the first time since his acquittal on sex-abuse charges last year to receive a music award, was greeted by about 100 fans as he arrived in a black van.
Inside the Seibi Gakuen children's home, Jackson watched a 15-minute performance of traditional music and dance by children in kimonos before speaking briefly on stage. "I'm very happy to be here," said Jackson, wearing sunglasses and a white T-shirt under a black double-breasted suit with gold buttons and a single red armband. "I'm happy to be with you lovely people," he told an auditorium of 140 children, ages 2-18.
In Japanese, he said "Aishiteru," meaning I love you. Smiling, he later shook hands and signed autographs for the children, who called out "Michael, Michael" and tugged at his sleeve. "He is very tall and very cool-looking. I don't know his songs but I've seen him dance on television," Eiho Omori, 13, said.
Teachers at the children's home said they were surprised when they had heard Jackson would be visiting. "Everyone couldn't believe such a big international star was visiting us," said Kiyoko Mito, headmistress of the Christian-run school.
"The children only believed me after seeing the news yesterday that Michael Jackson was actually in Japan," she said.
Jackson's trip to Japan is the first in a series of planned visits to Asia. The star moved to Bahrain shortly after a jury cleared him last June of charges that he had sexually abused a young boy at his Neverland Valley Ranch in central California.
Grazie a Jiblet per la news...
Mj ha visitato un orfanotrofio a Tokyo dove sono circa 140 ragazzini tra i 2 e i 18 anni, ha assistito a 15 minuti di danza tradizionale giapponese fatta dai bamabini.
Un ragazzino ha detto che MJ è cool ad ha un bel look, che non conosce le sue canzoni ma che l'ha visto ballare in TV...
Gli insegnanti non potevano credere che una star come Michael Jackson venisse a visitare l'orfanotrofio.
Mj ha detto che è molto felice di essere la.
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