The accession of Emperor Naruhito to the Chrysanthemum Throne has been picked as the top domestic news story of 2019 by senior editors of Kyodo News and its member or subscriber newspapers and broadcasters.Japan celebrated on May 1 Emperor Naruhito's accession to the Chrysanthemum Throne and the start of Reiwa, the new imperial era, bringing to an end the Heisei Era that spanned over 30 years.Emperor Naruhito's father, former Emperor Akihito, abdicated the previous day -- the first Japanese monarch to do so in about 200 years -- and became known as His Majesty the Emperor Emeritus. The empe…READ FULL ARTICLE
