TOKYO - Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko celebrated their Diamond anniversary on Wednesday , marking six decades of a marriage that helped modernise the monarchy."Sixty shining years of mutual support" wrote the often-staid Nikkei business daily in a take-out on their marriage - including a photo of Michiko, 84, calmly helping Akihito when he mixed up the pages of his speech at a recent ceremony.
"To break with tradition in Japan is extremely difficult,"said Kazuo Oda, who was present when Akihito and Michiko met at a tennis match in August 1957, two years before they wed. In many ways, Michiko did just that. She raised her two sons and daughter herself, even making them pack their school lunches. By tradition, royal children had been raised by wet nurses and royal helpers.
But the public picture was often marred by news of Michiko's ill-health, which commentators and insiders attributed to harsh treatment by royal courtiers and her imperial mother-in-law."Living as crown princess and later empress was not an easy position for me by any means," she said in remarks ahead of her 84th birthday last October.
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