More than 1300, including Shingo Kunieda, a leading wheelchair tennis player and recipient of the National Honor Award, were invited to the garden party. Nobel Prize winner Akira Yoshino and Living National Treasure and kabuki actor Jinzaemon Kataoka were also invited.

The garden party is held twice a year in spring and autumn at Akasaka Gyoen National Garden in Tokyo, and will be held for the first time in five years on the 2th of next month.