1.
GV PAN...CAMP SITE.
0.10

2.
SV GIRLS AROUND CAM? FIRE.
0.13

3.
SV GIRLS PREPARE FOOD.
0.16

4.
CU DITTO.
0.20

5.
SV.PAN...PRINCESS MICHIKO ARRIVES.
0.35

6.
STV GIRLS APPLAUD.
0.38

7.
SV PRINCESS LOOKS INTO TENT.
0.43

8.
CU PRINCESS.
0.46

9.
SV PRINCESS ONTO ROSTRUM.
0.53

10.
CU DITTO.
0.55

11.
GV GIRLS RUN AROUND FIRE.
1.01

12.
LV FIRES.
1.05

13.
SV AMERICAN GIRL SCOUTS DANCE.
1.12

14.
CU PRINCESS WATCHES.
1.14

15.
SV FIRE.
1.16

16.
GV JAPANESE GIRLS DANCE AROUND FIRE.
1.21

17.
SV.PAN...PRINCESS MICHIKO LEAVES.
1.26



Initials AA/S/MR/GH



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Background: CROWN PRINCESS MICHIKO OF JAPAN, MAKING HER FIRST OFFICIAL APPEARANCE IN SIX MONTHS.VISITED THE ASIAN GIRL SCOUT CAMP AT THE FOOT OF MT.TOGAKUSHI, SOME 250 MILES NORTH-WEST OF TOKYO, LAST WEDNESDAY.THE ASIAN CAMP WAS ATTENDED BY SOME 150 GIRLS FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES.AMONG THEM: CANADA, TAIWAN, HONGKONG, ISRAEL, KOREA, LAOS, NEW ZEALAND, THE PHILIPPINES, AND THE UNITED STATES; AND SOME 3,500 JAPANESE SCOUTS.

PRINCESS MICHIKO VISITED THE CAMP ON THE LAST DAY OF THE WEEK-LONG JAMBOREE.SHE TOURED THE FOREIGN CONTINGENTS AND WATCHED THEM PREPARE AND COOK FOOD OVER CAMP FIRES.SHE WAS ALSO ABLE TO SEE A DISPLAY OF NATIONAL DANCING BY SOME OF THE SCOUTS.THE AMERICAN GIRLS PERFORMED A TRADITIONAL NORTH-AMERICAN INDIAN DANCE, AND GIRLS FROM HONGKONG DEMONSTRATED A CHINESE DANCE.

THIS WAS PRINCESS MICHIKO'S SECOND VISIT TO A JAMBOREE, THE FIRST BEING LAST AUTUMN WHEN LADY BADEN-POWELL, FOUNDER OF THE GIRL SCOUT MOVEMENT, WAS IN JAPAN.AFTERWARDS SHE RETURNED TO KARUIZAWA WHERE SHE HAS BEEN RESTING SINCE SPRING.