The Emperor Akihito seriously ill, ten months before abdication | foreign

For the second day in a row, Japanese Emperor Akihito establishes his official mission while he fights for insufficient blood flow to the brain. The 84-year-old's will, until he can get by until April, is the first Japanese monarch of more than two centuries to abdicate.

Akihito has a profound diagnostic history that old people often have, even though they are half-divine. 19659002] Previously, he was operated on for prostate cancer and heart problems. A spokesman said on Tuesday that the emperor had stomach and was suffering from fraud, in addition to insufficient blood flow to the brain.

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The Emperor Akihito has been chief of state in Japan since 1989 popular but controversial father Hirohito left. Unlike Hirohito, who led Japan through World War II, growing the economic comet and returning to the summit, Akihito took the emperor's office more like a modern monarch. The father held out in the deity of his post, as the Japanese tradition proposes

. Akihito announced two years ago that he would abdicate because of his age and his health. After thirty years of post, he will resign on April 30 next year in favor of his son, Crown Prince Naruhito.

Akihito is then transformed into Jōkō (Emeritus Emperor) Heisei, according to Japanese tradition. The emperor after his reign (usually after death) gets a different name. The post-imperial name of Hirohito is Shōwa

He is succeeded by his son Naruhito, 58. After that, the road to the trunk of Chrysanthemum becomes more reverberated.

Naruhito and his wife Masako have a child, daughter Aiko, who completes 17 this year.But Aiko can not be the princess of the crown at this time.The Japanese patriarchal system is not kindly opposed to female monarchs.In 1947, Japan founded a law that abolishes the nobility and found that the men of the royal family were entitled to the throne.

Japan had emperors: Jingū in the 200 years in Shōtoku in the 700s, the country had eight women but after that, only two women sat on the throne. Meishō ruled in the 17th century while the last emperor, Go Sakuramachi, abdicated 1771 in favor of his nephew.

It was the descendant of the nephew, Kōkaku, who was the last emperor to abdicate. It took place in 1817.

Comfortable continuation or feminist legislation. Do not become emperors right now. When Naruhito becomes emperor, his brother Fumihito will follow the following while his youngest son, Hisahito, 12, will be third in the queue

The Crown Prince also has a little sister Sayako, the highest priestess Shinto Temple, Ise Jingū.

The debate took place in Japan before the birth of Hisahito, no male descendant being born after the Crown Prince's brother. Then Parliament was almost preparing to make a change of law to the benefit of Princess Aiko. Destiny would be different and now the debate is mainly academic.

He may change after the change of faith. But it will be a long time before we know whether the world's oldest monarchy will have its first ruling emperor in over 200 years.