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https://www.reuters.com/video/2017/...videoChannel=118110&channelName=Dateline+Asia
Emperor Akihito, who has spent much of his nearly three decades on Japan’s throne seeking to soothe the wounds of World War Two, will step down on April 30, 2019 - the first abdication by a Japanese monarch in about two centuries.
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Interesting changes in the Chrysanthemum Throne since WWII. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysanthemum_Throne
Emperor Akihito, who has spent much of his nearly three decades on Japan’s throne seeking to soothe the wounds of World War Two, will step down on April 30, 2019 - the first abdication by a Japanese monarch in about two centuries.
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Interesting changes in the Chrysanthemum Throne since WWII. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysanthemum_Throne