Why was Akihito's abdication so momentous?
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Why was Akihito's abdication so momentous?
Emperor Akahito:
Akihito (b. 1933) was the 125th Emperor of Japan, and the first to rise to power during the era in which Japanese Emperors had no power after his father Hirohito's reducation to a symbolic monarch after the end of WWII in 1945. He became Emperor on January 7, 1989 and abdicated on April 30, 2019.
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View this answerAkihito was the first Emperor to abdicate before his death since 1817. It used to be far more normal, and even ruling Emperors could 'abdicate' and...
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