Nov. 12, 1990

Posted November 14, 2007, 1:00 pm by Growing Bolder


56-year-old Crown Prince Akihito is enthroned as emperor of Japan during a ceremony that cost a reported $80 million.
Akihito had caused controversy in 1959 when he broke a 1,500-year-old tradition and married a commoner that he had met on a tennis court.

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