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My friend Akiyama has photographed about 3,000 Japanese weddings on a beach in Hawaii. In about a thousand of them, somewhere in the background, there is a random American losing his mind with joy. Japanese couples love to get married in Hawaii. Small ceremony. Eight guests. Very quiet. Very proper. In Japan, wedding guests clap politely, at the correct time, and then stop. For his first two years, Akiyama tried to keep strangers out of the frame. In 2004, he gave up. Now he keeps a separate album. He calls it "The Guests Nobody Invited." He showed it to me. A man from Ohio, eating a hot dog in a beach chair. During the vows, he stood up, raised the hot dog toward the couple like a sword, and sat back down. He never stopped chewing. Two grandmothers from Iowa, crying harder than the bride's mother. The bride's mother asked who they were. Nobody knew. They were invited to lunch. A bachelorette party from Texas who screamed "YEEHAW" at the first kiss. The bride's grandmother, 86, has said "yeehaw" at every family event since 2016. Nobody in the family knows where she learned it. Akiyama does. A surfer who rode a wave past the ceremony, took both hands off his board to applaud, and wiped out. In the photo, he is completely airborne. Still clapping. A Marine in dress blues, walking to his own sister's wedding, who stopped, saluted the groom, and said, "Take care of her, sir." The groom has told this story at every family dinner for fourteen years. A man fishing off the rocks who caught a fish during the kiss and held it up high, for luck. In Japan, a fish at a wedding really is good luck. We serve sea bream at weddings for exactly that reason. He did not know this. He just felt it was the right thing to do. In Japan, if a stranger walks into your wedding photo, both of you apologize. For a long time. In America, the stranger joins the wedding. Then he leaves. Then he tells everyone at his hotel. But Akiyama says one guest in that album is different. An old man on a bench under the same palm tree. Faded blue aloha shirt. Every few weddings, there he is. Standing. Clapping. He never came closer than that bench. After about ten years, Akiyama finally walked over and asked who he was. His name was Norman. He was from Oregon. He had married his wife, Marian, on that exact beach in 1966. She died in 2003. He moved to Honolulu the next year and started coming to the bench. "In case anybody gets married," he said. "Somebody clapped for us." Norman died this spring. He was 91. Akiyama went back through twenty-four years of photos. He found Norman in 412 weddings. He printed every single one, put them in a book, and flew it to Norman's daughter in Oregon. She turned the pages for a long time. Then she said, "Dad went to 412 weddings? He always told me he was just going to the beach." Last month, Akiyama shot his first wedding since Norman died. The bench under the palm tree was empty. Halfway through the vows, a man on vacation from Wisconsin sat down on it. He saw the couple. He stood up. And he started clapping. He had no idea. Akiyama took the picture. The bench is never empty for long.

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🔥🚨 JUST NOW — National Archives tour is OVER. Trump and Xi shake hands at the BOTTOM of the stairs Builder-in-Chief showed him the paper and the stone. Historic visit. Final handshake on the steps. That’s the last frame in D.C. before Andrews. Xi and Peng are wheels up next.