Ichiro Fujisaki, Japan's ambassador to the United States, is scheduled to meet this afternoon with Gov. Linda Lingle in a closed-door session.

Fujisaki is in Hawaii ahead of a planned summer visit by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko. Japan's royal couple will be in Hawaii in July following a trip to Canada.

No details of their visit have been made public yet.

Fujisaki was at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl this morning to participate in a wreath-laying ceremony. He also visited the gravesites of war correspondent Ernie Pyle, astronaut Ellison Onizuka and Army Staff Sgt. Robert Kuroda, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for action in Bruyeres, France, during World War II.

Next to Onizuka is the grave of a private who was a cook, cemetery director Gene Castagnetti said.

"Here at the cemetery we do not segregate individuals by rank," he told Fujisaki. "All are our nation's heroes."

Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann is scheduled to attend a reception for Fujisaki this afternoon at the Japan consul general's office.