A close aide to Emperor Hirohito criticized the government for staging an "entirely incongruous" and costly ceremony in 1990 to mark the enthronement of Emperor Akihito, according to comments in his diary obtained by Kyodo News.The late chamberlain Shinobu Kobayashi also wrote about his "fears" that the enthronement ceremony, "held for the first time under the new Constitution, might be used as a precedent for holding the ceremony in the future."Discovery of the criticism from someone close to the imperial household comes as the government is preparing for a series of imperial succession ri…READ FULL ARTICLE
