Panel meets more experts to study emperor's possible abdication

Journalist Yoshiko Sakurai speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 14, 2016, after attending a meeting of a government advisory panel on the possible abdication of 82-year-old Emperor Akihito. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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