Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary

Video. Japan's emperor toasts 60 years of marriage weeks before abdication

This is Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary — just three weeks before they relinquish their throne. 

This is Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary — just three weeks before they relinquish their throne. 

The couple met in 1957 at a tennis championship remembered as the "love match".

The wedding was held in 1959 and made Akihito the first future emperor of Japan to marry a Catholic-educated commoner.

The 85-year-old emperor will abdicate the throne on April 30 after reigning for three decades. He will hand over to his eldest son, Crown Prince Naruhito, the next day.

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