quite a. greater risk. why are people more consigned. to the first. this is asia coming up on the program bidding farewell and welcoming a new era japanese emperor akihito relinquishes his throne setting the scene for the ascendancy of crown prince narrative itto. young privileged and deadly we ask why well educated young people turn to extremism as they've done in sri lanka and elsewhere.

i'm melissa chan and welcome to news asia it's good to have you with us a new era begins for japan today as emperor akihito pushes the chrysanthemum throne in the first abdication by a japanese emperor in more than two hundred years the day has been steeped in rituals starting with akihito reporting his abdication to his imperial ancestors at a shinto shrine in his final speech at the imperial palace the eighty five year old thanks the people of japan and said he would pray for peace and happiness son crown prince not he will take over the throne from his father. at the ceremony prime minister shinzo paid his respects.

well me tell you if you are with the day of abdication we reflect upon the long years over which the emperor has thoughtfully shared the happiness and sadness of the people of japan. kundry knew once again the feeling of deep respect and sanction that. people from across the country gathered outside the emperor's palace in tokyo for the event it was an emotional day. here and i feel grateful. i wish him good health but i feel emotional i have a well known time feel. like him or i'd like to say one thing to him thank you so much of it there at the pharmacy in as this era is coming to an end it makes me feel a little sad that this city be here in this moment as an important experience i think never see a sign of that we saw the emperor and empress were very keen on visiting the

affected areas after the devastating earthquake in northeastern japan. to the media should we felt they were looking after us. for years and we felt the compassion. of our company for him to make the current empress symbolized peace. and so i am a little sad that he's after katie like you most of us never think that i believe the next ten prebble carry on his legacy because there is no you i strongly believe that. in his thirty years on the throne acca he did much to transform the image of japan's imperial family and to improve relations with the country's neighbors let's have a look back. emperor akihito greeting his people for the first time after ascending the chrysanthemum through. his reign would see him modernize japan's tradition bound monarchy and extend a hand of peace to those harmed by his country's imperial ambitions it was in his

father's name that chapin committed many of the atrocities that shook the pacific during world war two. and akihito spent most of his early life in diplomatic trips where he expressed his deep remorse over his country's wartime transgressions in modern times his frequent calls for peace have been seen by many as a quiet message to forces within his own government ones who would like to see japan take on a more assertive role on the world stage driven by concerns over his own failing health education will make him the first japanese emperor to leave the throne without leaving his country into war. a legacy he reflected on during his last official appearance his japanese emperor as his country marked the anniversary of its wartime capitulation. the north thinking of the peaceful times that have extended for many years after the war reflecting on our past and with

a deep feeling of remorse i earnestly hope that the ravages of war will never be repeated i also pray for world peace and our nation's further development you must . joining us now is journalist sonia glasgow who has been following the events in tokyo sonia give us a sense of how popular emperor akihito has been. and for aki to has been very popular he is of course the symbol of the japanese state but he's really more than that he has taken on a role as the kind of chief consoler of the nation and he's been there together with his wife whenever something happened in the country there be a lot of natural disasters and he and his wife they visit it's the victims of these disasters and they've made

a big impression on the people by kneeling down being on the same level as the regular japanese people which is something that they've never known from previous and for us and for him it's always been really important to establish that connection with the japanese people and considering how many people came to the imperial palace expressing his thanks. i think that that says a lot of people even crying you know saying hell thankful they were give us a sense of what it's like to be in japan right now how have ordinary citizens been able to participate on this historic day do they even get the day off well japan is enjoying a very long holiday or ten days which is a very unusual they are in golden week right now which is usually just a few days off but this time it's ten days until he was super quiet it's really a little bit eerie you can see many people on the trains which is very unusual you can see you could see today people are gathering near the imperial palace trying to

catch a glimpse of what's happening but i think the big event for the public will be on saturday when we encourage all show himself the new and for will show himself to the public for the first time could you let us know what the people think of his son now to he tell. they think of him as also of a very trustworthy person a person who will follow in the footsteps of his father as a very peace loving person but they also are very curious to see the world hugh who how he will use his experience having lived abroad and having studied abroad so some people express the hope that he will strengthen the ties with other countries so thank you it's been a little over a week since the deadly suicide bombings in sri lanka and the investigations into

the suspects continues but there are a few things we already know including one interesting fact many of the suicide bombers were fairly educated and came from well off families you can see the house of one of the suspects behind me but it's not the first time people with this kind of background have been drawn to extremism and turn to terrorism consider osama bin laden and his millionaire upbringing you might also remember what happened in dhaka blank ledes in two thousand and sixteen when militants in their late teens and early twenty's stormed a bakery they took dozens of hostages many of them to arrests after a standoff with armed forces they ended up killing twenty four people it turned out the attackers had attended prestigious private schools and universities at home and abroad some also came from very rich families so what's going on here why does some people of privilege turn against systems they've benefited from

earlier i had a conversation about this with professor at your marty one of southeast asia's most prominent islamic scholars. and professor at your marty outs thank you for joining us we've seen last week with the sri lanka attacks and also the twenty sixteen doc attacks that it turns out a lot of these perpetrators come from wealthy families and are fairly educated and what's going on here at the very people who benefit from the system seem to turn against it i think this is a new new pronominal not only in bangladesh or in sri lanka as you said but also if i mean you know this. there was a family you know husband and wife and two daughters wealthy well educated and then blew up glue them serve in the in the in the two churches in the second largest city in indonesia i think this is because of. ins in some way.

security. police specialty that's when. to deal with terrorism has been quite successful to this to come but you know. terrorists but now we have a new pronominal with the rise of lone wolf like what you have and also in. and also i think in bangladesh now these are students a lot of them at universities and schools maybe that's one way to combat it is to speak to them before they've taken their idiology and turned to terrorism is that one strategy you've talked about yeah i think we did of course to you know to to supervise student activities on campus particularly in countries like you know indonesia or bangladesh or some other places because in countries like this.

does you know radical groups actually use political. political liberalism you know. democracy for their own purposes by you know conducting. timing on certain ideology idealogy islamic radical ideology and is there anything that mosques can do although with both the universities and mosque you run into problems because there's the freedom of religion freedom of expression that you can't bump up against a militia to this is also the case in the moccasin like indonesia or in some other majority muslim country because the government cannot control the most so i think in this case the government corporate. with most or associates the association of most muslim leaders in order you know. in order for muslim preachers not to use the servant to preach hate to prate to preach radicalism and.

so that ideology like what we have in many countries but in countries like were government in full control of most i think there would be no problem professor that's the marquee thank you very much thank you. and. that's it for now be sure to check out our other stories on dot com for slash asia or on facebook and twitter we need the with pictures from japan as the country bids farewell to emperor akihito thanks for watching next time.

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