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    Japan's emperor prepares to wrap up a remarkable reign

    by Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times Apr 30, 2019 3 minutes

    TOKYO - On Tuesday, Japan's 85-year-old Emperor Akihito was scheduled to end his reign and hand the seat of the longest-running monarchy in the world to his son, Crown Prince Naruhito.

    He's the first Japanese monarch to abdicate in more than two centuries.

    That seems fitting, because much about his three-decade reign was unprecedented. He was the first emperor to ascend to the Chrysanthemum Throne after the position was stripped of all political power and divinity in the new constitution that Japan

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