{"id":1226,"date":"2020-10-20T02:55:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T19:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bangkokagenda.com\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2020-12-02T08:22:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T01:22:51","slug":"recent-portraits-of-her-majesty-the-empress-emerita-on-the-occasion-of-her-majestys-birthday-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangkokagenda.com\/?p=1226","title":{"rendered":"Recent Portraits of Her Majesty the Empress Emerita on the occasion of Her Majesty&#8217;s Birthday (2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent Portraits of Her Majesty the Empress Emerita on the occasion of Her Majesty&#8217;s Birthday (2020)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"section\">\n<h2>His Majesty the Emperor Emeritus (The 125th Emperor)<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"normal\">\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Name<\/span>\n<ul class=\"normal\">\n<li>Akihito<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Born<\/span>\n<ul class=\"normal\">\n<li>December 23, 1933, as the eldest son of the late Emperor Showa<br \/>\nComing of Age Ceremony and Investiture as Crown Prince, at the age of 18, conducted at the Imperial Palace, Tokyo: November 1952<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">The Personal Title for Young Members (Been conferred in accordance with the Imperial Family&#8217;s tradition of appellation)<\/span>\n<ul class=\"normal\">\n<li>Prince Tsugu(<span class=\"font-i\">Tsugu-no-Miya<\/span>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Accession to the Throne<\/span>\n<ul class=\"normal\">\n<li>January 7, 1989<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Enthronement Ceremony<\/span>\n<ul class=\"normal\">\n<li>November 12, 1990<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Ceremony of the Abdication of His Majesty the Emperor at the\u00a0<i>Seiden<\/i>\u00a0(State Hall)<\/span>\n<ul class=\"normal\">\n<li>April 30, 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Abdication from the Throne<\/span>\n<ul class=\"normal\">\n<li>April 30, 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Education<\/span>\n<ul class=\"normal\">\n<li>Finished education at Gakushuin University, 1956.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"normal\">In June 1953, His Majesty the Emperor, the then Crown Prince, representing Japan at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, made his first overseas trip. On this trip he travelled to 13 other countries in Europe and North America.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"normal\">Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress have visited 58 countries in more than fifty years since their marriage in 1959.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"normal\">On 12 November, 1990, the Enthronement Ceremony was held at the Imperial Palace, Tokyo, attended, from abroad, by dignitaries from 158 countries, including Monarchs and Heads of State and two international organizations.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"normal\">As stated in the Constitution of Japan, the Emperor is \u201cthe symbol of the State and of the unity of the people\u201d and derives His position from \u201cthe will of the people with whom resides sovereign power.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"section\">\n<h2>Her Majesty the Empress Emerita<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"normal\">\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Name<\/span>\n<ul class=\"normal\">\n<li>Michiko<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Born<\/span>\n<ul class=\"normal\">\n<li>October 20, 1934, as the eldest daughter of Hidesaburo and Fumiko Shoda<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Education<\/span>\n<ul class=\"normal\">\n<li>Graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature in the Faculty of Literature at the University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo, 1957<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"section\">\n<h2>Marriage<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"normal\">April 10, 1959<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"section\">\n<h2>Children<\/h2>\n<ol class=\"normal\">\n<li>His Majesty the Emperor Naruhito, born February 23, 1960<\/li>\n<li>His Imperial Highness Crown Prince Akishino, born November 30, 1965<\/li>\n<li>Her Imperial Highness Princess Sayako (now Mrs. Yoshiki Kuroda), born April 18, 1969<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent Portraits of Her Majesty the Empress Emerit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/bangkokagenda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/zymtzuxrpau51.jpg",900,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/bangkokagenda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/zymtzuxrpau51-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium":["https:\/\/bangkokagenda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/zymtzuxrpau51-600x400.jpg",600,400,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/bangkokagenda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/zymtzuxrpau51-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/bangkokagenda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/zymtzuxrpau51.jpg",640,427,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/bangkokagenda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/zymtzuxrpau51.jpg",900,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/bangkokagenda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/zymtzuxrpau51.jpg",900,600,false],"news-base-1200-675":["https:\/\/bangkokagenda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/zymtzuxrpau51.jpg",900,600,false],"news-base-600-335":["https:\/\/bangkokagenda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/zymtzuxrpau51-600x335.jpg",600,335,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/bangkokagenda.com\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/bangkokagenda.com\/?cat=16\" rel=\"category\">ROYAL<\/a>","tag_info":"ROYAL","comment_count":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangkokagenda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangkokagenda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangkokagenda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangkokagenda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangkokagenda.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bangkokagenda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"https:\/\/bangkokagenda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangkokagenda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangkokagenda.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangkokagenda.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangkokagenda.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}