ISE, Japan - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visited Ise Jingu, a Shinto shrine in western Japan, on Thursday to report the upcoming abdication of the 85-year-old emperor on April 30 to the ancestral deities of the imperial family enshrined there.
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