Japan's Heisei imperial era: three generations look back, and ahead

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TOKYO - Japan’s Heisei era, which began when Emperor Akihito inherited the throne on Jan. 7, 1989, and ends when he abdicates on April 30, saw economic stagnation, disasters and technological change.Generations of Japanese lived through those decades. Their differing views and experiences will shape the legacy of the Heisei years.

“Children today ... don’t know anything about war and that’s wonderful. But if they don’t know about how Japan fought a war some 70 years ago, we may follow a mistaken path again,” Nihei told Reuters before speaking to students at the museum. “When I saw the image of the emperor and empress on Saipan, I felt they were truly sorry for the sins the Emperor Showa had committed,” she said, referring to Hirohito by his posthumous name. “I was moved.”“I want them to study about the past properly and link that to the future,” she said.Saito, a former computer systems engineer, was on a business trip in November 1997 when he got a phone call.

“No one ever thought Yamaichi would collapse,” said Saito, who had joined the firm as a 22-year-old college graduate. Harada was 11 when a massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit northeast Japan on March 11, 2011, triggering a nuclear meltdown in Fukushima.

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