Naruhito leads Japan into a new era. Japan's powerful unseen Imperial Treasures. The princess, the palace and the shrinking royal line. Ten things about Japan's emperor. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The day began with private rituals in the Imperial Palace. The life and reign of Akihito - the human emperor The prince who will take Japan into a new era The abdication in pictures.
What happened at the abdication ceremony? Image source, Reuters. The emperor took part in private Shinto ceremonies to start the day. Akihito is the first Japanese emperor to step down in more than years. Why did the emperor decide to abdicate? Emperor Akihito's address to the nation. Who is the incoming emperor?
Image source, Getty Images. Can the world's royals modernize and maintain their thrones? The Emperor's conciliatory sentiments about Japan's wartime past contrast with that of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has suggested that future generations should not have to keep apologizing for Japan's past.
Abe has also ignited criticism from China and South Korea in the past by visiting the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, a controversial memorial site that includes names of convicted Japanese war criminals. Abe hasn't visited the shrine since , although earlier this year he sent it a ritual offering. People's emperor. Throughout his three-decade rule, Emperor Akihito has embraced a more "normal" life.
For a start, he became the first Emperor to marry a commoner. The Emperor met Empress Michiko in during tennis match in the scenic mountain town of Karuizawa. After they married, the couple often returned to the place where they met.
A 'love match' that broke with 2, years of royal tradition. When Emperor Akihito was a child, he was separated from his parents and raised and educated by chamberlains and tutors. But when the new royal couple had their three children, Naruhito, Fumihito and Sayako Kuroda, they declined hired help, instead raising the children themselves -- even reportedly making them pack their own school lunches.
Photos: A "love match" that won over Japan. The couple had met the previous year while playing a doubles match on a tennis court in Karuizawa, Nagano prefecture, an event that became known as "love match. Shoda was nicknamed "Mitchi" and her hairstyles and fashion were closely watched. Michiko Shoda, now known as Empress Michiko, departs her home for the Imperial Palace in the early hours of April 10, , the day of her marriage to Crown Prince Akihito.
Akihito photographed wearing a top hat and a suit on his wedding day at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, on April 10, The ceremony made Michiko Shoda, a commoner, the future empress of Japan, breaking with over 2, years of tradition. The future empress, seen in traditional ceremonial robes, is photographed on her way to the Kashiko-dokoro, or the Imperial Palace sanctuary, on her wedding day in Akihito, second from the right, is assisted by an official as he enters a Shinto sanctuary inside the Imperial Palace on his wedding day in The couple pose during their wedding at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.
Michiko wore an elaborate "junihitoe," a layered kimono with symbolic patterns. The newly-wed Akihito and Michiko ride in a royal carriage through the streets of Tokyo on their wedding day. Shigeo Suzuki, a former TV producer who oversaw coverage of the ceremony, recalls filming the couple waving happily to the crowds. Akihito and Michiko pose for photographs at the Imperial Palace the day after the royal wedding. The growth of mass media and the emergence of live television, helped to cement the pair's enormous popularity.
A tram decorated with lights to celebrate the royal wedding. Prior to the royal wedding, live TV footage was usually delivered from fixed cameras. But the event marked one of the first instances when moving cameras, mounted on dollies, were used in the country. More than half a million people lined the parade route, while millions more tuned in to watch the wedding live.
Tokyo residents pictured in front of Michiko Shoda house before her wedding to Akihito in The public was fascinated with the soon-to-be princess.
A first aid bus decorated with photos of the royal couple. Akihito and Michiko with their son Naruhito in The couple often broke with tradition, opting to raise their own children. In his spare time, the Emperor published scientific papers on raccoon dogs, after studying their excrement , which he had collected from the Imperial grounds, and compiled research on goby fish -- a species of goby is named after him. But it was in , as the country reeled from the fatal earthquake and tsunami that saw more than 20, people die or go missing, that Akihito truly cemented his reputation as a people's Emperor.
The Emperor made an unprecedented televised address -- the first time any Japanese Emperor had spoken to the public on TV. Breaking down Japan's succession crisis Akihito and Michiko traveled to disaster-hit areas, kneeling to talk to survivors face-to-face. His words gave us the strength to carry on. Andrew Gordon, a leading scholar of modern Japanese history at Harvard University, said that Akihito's actions had made the Imperial family more accessible.
But he cautioned that compared to some monarchies in Europe, Japan's was still a "very distant institution.
A new era. The incoming Naruhito's name means "a man who will acquire heavenly virtues. But the crown prince has shown no hint of harking back to the era of the demi-gods when he ascends to the Japanese throne on May 1. Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito attends a wedding in Luxembourg in He is the oldest son of Emperor Akihito.
Naruhito's name means "a man who will acquire heavenly virtues. Naruhito walks with his parents on a beach at the Hayama Imperial Villa in June Naruhito plays on a swing on his fifth birthday in February Naruhito throws a paper airplane with his parents in October We want to hear what you think about this article.
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