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World Service,30 Apr 2019,23 mins

Pomp and circumstance Japanese style, as Emperor abdicates

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Akihito, the son of the wartime emperor Hirohito, hands over to his son, Crown Prince Naruhito The world-famous University of Cambridge says it will look into its links with the slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries. And the young Thai footballers rescued from deep inside a cave last year whose story is going to become a Netflix sensation.

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