Japan's Emperor Akihito will step down in favor of his elder son, Crown Pri...
TOKYO - Japan’s Emperor Akihito will step down in favor of his elder son, Crown Prince Naruhito, on Tuesday, ending the 31-year Heisei era during which he sought to bring the monarchy closer to people.
- “It’s a normal day,” said Masato Saito, 40-year-old construction worker. “This kind of political stuff is irrelevant to us ordinary people. As long as they make our lives easy to live, that’s all I care about.” - “It’s a change of era so I am looking forward to it and hope that it will be an era in which young people can be happy,” said a 50-year-old illustrator who declined to give his name.
“If our expectations for the new emperor are too high, it would be hard on him, so I’d like him to do his job bit by bit.”
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