Japanese Emperor Akihito's abdication on April 30 will end the three-decade...
TOKYO - Japanese Emperor Akihito’s abdication on April 30 will end the three-decade Heisei era that began on Jan. 8, 1989, one day after he inherited the throne upon the death of his father, Hirohito.
Japan, which had been the world’s second-largest economy after the United States, was overtaken by China in 2010. Data released in April showed the percentage of those aged 65 and over was 28.1 percent; the working age population fell to just under 60 percent. A magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit northeast Japan on March 11, 2011, triggering a tsunami that killed nearly 20,000 people and caused meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Many people are still in temporary housing.In 1991, Japan, constrained by its pacifist post-war constitution, sent cash but no troops for the first Gulf War.
Abe wants to revise the pacifist constitution to clarify the military’s ambiguous status, but the public remains divided.Japan was bedevilled for much of the era by a string of “revolving door” prime ministers, including Noboru Takeshita, who quit in June 1989 over a shares-for-favors scandal. In 2009, the LDP was toppled again by the Democratic Party of Japan, whose rocky rule under three premiers ended when Abe led the LDP back to power in 2012.
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