{"id":39179,"date":"2019-04-30T03:23:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T03:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39179"},"modified":"2019-04-30T03:23:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T03:23:23","slug":"japans-85-year-old-monarch-retiring-as-the-peoples-emperor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39179","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s 85-year-old monarch retiring as the people&#8217;s Emperor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Tokyo (CNN)<\/cite>Japan&#8217;s 85-year-old monarch was born the son of a deity, but he&#8217;s retiring as the people&#8217;s Emperor.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">On Tuesday, Emperor Akihito will abdicate the Chrysanthemum Throne &#8212; the oldest continuous<strong> <\/strong>hereditary monarchy in the world &#8212; becoming the first Japanese monarch in modern history to do so. His son, Crown Prince Naruhito, 59, will be inaugurated as the 126th emperor the next day, ushering in the <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/31\/asia\/japan-new-era-reiwa-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Reiwa<\/a> era.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The much-loved Emperor Akihito will be remembered for connecting with his public in a way that no other Japanese monarch has done and expressing &#8220;deep remorse&#8221;<strong> <\/strong>for the country&#8217;s actions during World War II.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo (CNN)Japan&#8217;s 85-year-old monarch was born the son of a deity, but he&#8217;s retiring as the people&#8217;s Emperor. On Tuesday, Emperor Akihito will abdicate the Chrysanthemum Throne &#8212; the oldest continuous hereditary monarchy in the world &#8212; becoming the first Japanese monarch in modern history to do so. His son, Crown Prince Naruhito, 59, will&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}