From "Heisei" to "2025
April 30, 2019, Tokyo, Japan - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko are seen on a giant screen at Tokyo's Shibuya district on rainy Tuesday April 30, 2019, as Akihito is set to abdicate at 5:00 pm local time, making him the first Japanese monarch to do so in over two hundred years. This also marks the end of the?Imperial era of Heisei. Heir?apparent to the Chrysanthemum?Throne Naruhito?is expected to succeed his father as Emperor on 1 May 2019, marking the beginning of the new Imperial era. (Photo by Natsuki Sakai/AFLO) AYF -mis-