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Aly Rustom
He's tired of all the crap that goes being royal. He'd like to just leave his post and retire like a normal human being.
sf2k
he wants to get out of town asap. Let him
maybeperhapsyes
Just make it next year and give me my 10 days off.
Thanks.
Luddite
The Emperor is an oasis of sanity in this unnecessarily complicated, messy and drawn out abdication process. Just let him sign the document, no ceremony needed.
gubijin
Spoken like a true and honest gentleman. The guest list will be manipulated anyway by LDP with Emperor having no say. He probably wants only close family and friends at his abdication ceremony.
nitpickyned
I have a feeling that he would like a couple friends of the 'foreign persuasion' to attend. He just doesn't want to risk certain foreign dignitaries crashing the party.
gogogo
In other words this will be massive
DaDude
Whatever floats your boat lol
dcog9065
Would have preferred to see something a bit bigger with foreign royals invited, etc.