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  1. Emperor of Japan from 1989, succeeding his
  2. father Hirohito (Showa). His reign is called
  3. the Heisei (`achievement of universal peace')
  4. era. Unlike previous crown princes, Akihito
  5. was educated alongside commoners at the elite
  6. Gakushuin school and in 1959 he married
  7. Michiko Shoda (1934-), the daughter of a
  8. flour-company president. Their three
  9. children, the Oxford university-educated
  10. Crown Prince Hiro, Prince Aya, and Princess
  11. Nori, were raised at Akihito's home instead
  12. of being reared by tutors and chamberlains in
  13. a separate imperial dormitory.
  14.