82-year-old Japanese Emperor Akihito expressed his address to the nation in fear that it may become difficult for him to continue to perform the duties due to old age. Proclamation was issued in the media and posted on the website of the court.
During the 10-minute speech emperor carefully avoided speak openly about a possible change in the way of succession of the throne, which now prevents him abdication. He stressed, however, that has already passed two operations and feels that his “strength decreased.”
Historical message
– My age has already exceeded eighty, and I’m glad that I’m still healthy. But when I think of my declining physical strength I’m afraid it will be hard to do my duty as a symbol of the state – said Akihito. 
– Faced with the problem of the aging emperor I think it is wrong to limit his public duties and activities as a symbolic ruler – he added. In last. He also admitted that they felt his advanced age, and that he sometimes make mistakes during the ceremony of state.
The speech was recorded on Sunday in the imperial palace. It was only the second message of the video of the emperor – the first time took advantage of this form of contact with the subjects in 2011, five days after the earthquake, tsunami and the disaster at Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Premier formed a secret group?
Kyodo writes that the emperor’s speech will accelerate the debate on the introduction of changes in the law to allow the transfer of the throne Prince Naruhito. According to the agency the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe secretly set up a working group whose task is to develop within a few years of postwar amendments to the Constitution and laws of the imperial court in 1947. In the official response to the speech, the Prime Minister announced that “solemnly accepted the words of the emperor and deeply consider them.”
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the current Japanese legislation allows only posthumous succession to the throne, not providing in any way abdication of the emperor. However, in mid-July, the Japanese television NHK Japanese surprised the indication that Akihito expressed his desire to abdicate and retire in the coming years, and these intentions supports his son Naruhito. Then I had to explain closest associates that he would do so only if it concludes that it can not adequately perform mandated to him by the constitutional obligation of being a “symbol of the state and of the unity of the nation”, which takes very seriously.
At the same time the media pay attention that in recent years the monarch underwent heart surgery and anti-cancer therapy, prostate and give up part of their imperial duties, handing them over to his successor, 56-year-old Prince Naruhito.
Born in 1933, Akihito took the chrysanthemum Throne in 1989, a year after his father Hirohito, in whose name Japan fought in world war II. It attaches to the role imposed by the Americans after the war pacifist constitution of the country and reconciliation with Asian countries. In 1992, he was the first Japanese monarch who visited China, where he still remembers the Japanese wartime atrocities. 
The oldest monarchy in the world
Emperor Akihito, the passion ichthyologist, is the first Japanese monarch, whose wife was not noble. Akihito married Michiko Shoda, the daughter of a wealthy industrialist.
Japan is the world’s oldest monarchy. Information about the first emperors come from the VII-V century BC, while on the throne from the beginning sits still the same Yamato dynasty. The last emperor, who abdicated, was in 1817 Kôkaku, however, force the other to the right.
According to a recent poll commissioned by the newspaper “Asahi Shimbun,” 84 percent. Japanese supports the idea of allowing the abdication of the emperor, and only 5 percent. He is the opposite. The poll was conducted on 6-7 August.
Author: mm / I / PAP, Reuters, Japan Times, Asahi Shimbun
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