Crazy, the prince has 60 years. Anyway, idk how much power has a emperor in japan today but I'm surprise that he has waited so much. Edit: The prince is 60 years old and his wife is 55 years old, well, will has not a prince anymore. Fuck, the modern day is shit, the shit people today want not give birth for a heir. Edit2: Oh, obviouslly they freezed some ovules but why they did not came with this until now? The girl is 17 years old already.
That’s only true for the past 200 or so years. Historically, emperors would have passed the throne at a much younger age.
I remember when it was announced, it was a bit crazy because something like this hadnt actually happened in 200 years so they had to figure out how it would actually work. I think today, and since the end of WW2, the Emperor and imperial family are ceremonial figureheads with no sovereign power at all.
Oh, it changes something. For us tokusatsu fans, because the name of the era changes with each emperor, that means a new chapter opens up in tokusatsu-land. For example, Kamen Rider used to be categorized into Showa riders and Heisei riders. Showa riders are widely considered the "classic" riders, not just because they're the first ones, but because they're more straightforward. Heisei riders are characterized by their ability to change into multiple forms - with the only distinction being KR Black RX, which started production in Showa, but continued to Heisei. Black RX was also the first rider to have multiple forms. So, yeah, my curiosity is piqued. Reiwa might bring us fans a whole new category. Or it might not.
Just took a peek at the succession and it's a curious situation. Unless, by some unbelievable chance the new Empress has a boy, the throne at the next succession will pass to Naruhito's brother Fumihito and then on to Fumihito's son Hisahito as the oldest and only grandson of the Emeritus Emperor
Technically both. Japan has both the world standard Gregorian calendar (12 months; leap day every 4 years) and the calendar based on the era. Take a look at this sample Japanese driver's license (from Wikipedia), which uses Heisei as the year: Spoiler: Driver's License Note the "平成27年03月11日まで有効" in blue. It translates to "Valid until March 11 of the 27th Heisei year." Era names used to change a lot in ancient Japan. They would change after major events or to make things more auspicious. Not sure when, but the Japanese realized that era names changed way too much and limited era name changes just to when the Emperor was changed. Typically, the era names are taken from older poems. The era has changed from 平成 (heisei) to 令和 (reiwa). Interestingly enough, the era name for this era (令和/reiwa) was taken from a Japanese poem as opposed to having been taken from a Chinese poem, which is, to my knowledge, what has typically been done in the past.
No. This is ww2 history. Funny enough, the portion of text from the Man’yōshū that 令和 was selected from, was actually a reference to an older Classical Chinese text.