President Donald Trump met with Japanese Emperor Naruhito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Monday, continuing a tour of Asia that began at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Malaysia on Sunday and is scheduled to end with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in South Korea on Thursday.

Emperor Naruhito began his reign in 2019 after his father Akihito resigned from the throne due to advancing age and declining health – the first abdication in the Japanese imperial line since 1817. Naruhito is now 65 years old and his Empress Masako is 61.

Akihito is still alive at age 91, the longest-lived sovereign in the recorded history of what may be the world’s oldest hereditary monarchy (there is some dispute among historians about the time

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