Text this: ABDICATION OF JAPAN'S SYMBOL EMPEROR: A SYNOPTIC AND CROSS-NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

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| |  | ||  \ \\/ // | \  / ||   / _ \\  \ \\ / // 
| |/\| ||   \ ` //  |  \/  ||  / //\ \\  \ \/ //  
|  /\  ||    | ||   | .  . || |  ___  ||  \  //   
|_// \_||    |_||   |_|\/|_|| |_||  |_||   \//    
`-`   `-`    `-`'   `-`  `-`  `-`   `-`     `