TOKYO: Japanese Emperor Akihito has, for decades, been rewriting the rules to an antiquated imperial institution.
He is the first monarch in a long bloodline extending 2,500 years to marry a commoner – Empress Michiko is daughter to a flour-miller – whom he met on a tennis court.
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