{"id":299326,"date":"2019-05-13T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=299326"},"modified":"2019-05-13T06:00:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T20:00:34","slug":"resolution-congratulates-japans-new-emperor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/resolution-congratulates-japans-new-emperor\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolution congratulates Japan\u2019s new emperor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Paul A. Manglona (Ind-Rota) has introduced a Senate joint resolution that congratulates the ascension of Emperor Naruhito of Japan to the Chrysanthemum Throne. <\/p>\n<p>Naruhito\u2019s reign officially began on May 1.<\/p>\n<p>Naruhito became Japan\u2019s 126th monarch, after his father, the 85-year-old former Emperor Akihito, abdicated last April 30 due to old age and declining health.<\/p>\n<p>Akihito, now referred to as emperor emeritus, reigned for 30 years and became the first reigning monarch to abdicate the throne in over 200 years.<\/p>\n<p>The ascension of Naruhito, Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko\u2019s eldest son, to the throne began the Reiwa era from his father\u2019s Heisei. <\/p>\n<p>Naruhito is married to now Empress Masako; they have a daughter, 17-year-old Princess Toshi.<\/p>\n<p>Akihito and his wife, Michiko, visited Saipan in June 2005 to pay tribute to those who perished in the CNMI during World War II. <\/p>\n<p>The visit coincided with the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Paul A. Manglona (Ind-Rota) has introduced a Senate joint resolution that congratulates the ascension&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[170],"class_list":["post-299326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}