TOKYO: Japanese Empress Michiko, who turned 82, said she felt “shocked and pained” when she first saw newspaper headlines about her husband Emperor Akihito wanting to abdicate.
Akihito, 82, hinted two months ago at abdication, saying in a rare televised address that he worried age might make it hard for him to fulfil his royal duties.
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