కడప మున్సిపల్ మైదానంలో పోలీస్ కానిస్టేబుల్ దేహదారుఢ్య పరీక్షలు ఉదయం 5 గంటలకు ప్రారంభమైనాయి. జిల్లా వ్యాప్తంగా 5వేల మంది ప్రాథమిక పరీక్షల్లో ఉత్తీర్ణులై..శారీరక దారుఢ్య పరీక్షలకు అర్హత సాధించారు. వీరిలో 600మంది మహిళలు ఉన్నారు. మొదట అభ్యర్థుల ధ్రువీకరణ పత్రాలు, తర్వాత ఎత్తు పరిశీలన, అనంతరం 1600 మీటర్ల పరుగు పందెం నిర్వహిస్తున్నారు. రోజుకు 900 మంది హాజరవుతారని జిల్లా పోలీస్ అధికారి రాహుల్దేవ్ శర్మ తెలిపారు. ఫిబ్రవరి 22 నుంచి 27 వరకు ఈ పరీక్షలు కొనసాగుతాయి.
మొదలైన దేహదారుఢ్య పరీక్షలు
పోలీస్ కానిస్టేబుల్ అభ్యర్థులకు దేహదారుఢ్య పరీక్షలు కడప మున్సిపల్ మైదానంలో మొదలయ్యాయి. ఈ నెల 27 వరకు ఈ పరీక్షలు జరుగనున్నాయి.
కడప మున్సిపల్ మైదానంలో పోలీస్ కానిస్టేబుల్ దేహదారుఢ్య పరీక్షలు ఉదయం 5 గంటలకు ప్రారంభమైనాయి. జిల్లా వ్యాప్తంగా 5వేల మంది ప్రాథమిక పరీక్షల్లో ఉత్తీర్ణులై..శారీరక దారుఢ్య పరీక్షలకు అర్హత సాధించారు. వీరిలో 600మంది మహిళలు ఉన్నారు. మొదట అభ్యర్థుల ధ్రువీకరణ పత్రాలు, తర్వాత ఎత్తు పరిశీలన, అనంతరం 1600 మీటర్ల పరుగు పందెం నిర్వహిస్తున్నారు. రోజుకు 900 మంది హాజరవుతారని జిల్లా పోలీస్ అధికారి రాహుల్దేవ్ శర్మ తెలిపారు. ఫిబ్రవరి 22 నుంచి 27 వరకు ఈ పరీక్షలు కొనసాగుతాయి.
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ARCHIVE: Tokyo, Japan – 23 December 2018
1. Various of people cheering and waving Japanese flags as Japanese Emperor Akihito, Empress Michiko and the Imperial family appear on the Imperial Palace balcony to mark Akihito's 85th birthday
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ARCHIVE: Tokyo, Japan - December 2018 (exact date not released)
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2. Akihito and Michiko inside the Imperial Palace
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Tokyo, Japan – 3 February 2019
4. Wide of Kazuo Oda, Akihito's friend
5. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Kazuo Oda, Akihito's friend:
"I think he has learned how to put himself into other people's shoes and that's where his activities as emperor, such as his trips to pray for the war dead and visits to disaster victims, are coming from. I think he found his role as Emperor, who plays a symbolic role (not the political role like his father did). "
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6. Akihito and Michiko lowering their heads in front of the memorial to commemorate the lives lost in World War II
7. Japanese and Filipino flags
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ARCHIVE: Tokyo, Japan - December 2018 (exact date not released)
8. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Japanese Emperor Akihito:
"It gives me deep comfort that the Heisei era is coming to an end, free of war in Japan."
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ARCHIVE: Shimabara, Japan – 1 July 1991
9. STILL: Akihito and Michiko kneeling on the floor to talk to the victim of the volcano eruption
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Tokyo, Japan – 3 February 2019
10. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Kazuo Oda, Akihito's friend:
"He is truly an earnest man. He would never do anything irresponsible. Instead, he will care so much about other people."
11. Wide of Oda
12. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Kazuo Oda, Akihito's friend:
"I wrote in my diary that something I can never forget had happened on that day - that I sat on his knee to go to the palace and to have tea with him. You can say that is how he has been, someone who is very much down to earth."
13. Mid of Oda standing in front of a photo of him and Akihito in their youth
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ARCHIVE: Karuizawa, Japan - August 1958
14. STILL: Akihito (left), then Japanese Crown Prince, with Kazuo Oda (front), Akihito's friend, with Michiko Shoda (left) and Princess Suganomiya, Akihito's sister, walking in the resort town of Karuizawa
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Tokyo, Japan – 3 February 2019
15. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Kazuo Oda, Akihito's friend:
"It may sound funny but I think the biggest factor of his life's success was tennis. Tennis was good for him. He told me that. He said that he did not have much confidence but he gained it through tennis."
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16. STILL: Akihito and Michiko in tennis clothes
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Tokyo, Japan – 3 February 2019
17. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Kazuo Oda, Akihito's friend:
"My dream for them after abdication is – although I know he would say 'no' as it means to spend taxpayer's money for them - that they would build a cute tiny country house near the tennis court where they have so much of their shared memories. Then, I want them to spend their summer and play tennis there. It could be just 30 minutes or so of tennis as they are both in their old age. I wish they could play tennis and come back to the house where there is a fireplace in which they can light fire. After all, they met there, in Karuizawa, didn't they?"
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ARCHIVE: Tokyo, Japan – 8 August 2016
18. Various of people watching Akihito's announcement to abdicate broadcast on the big screen in downtown Tokyo
STORYLINE:
Japan's Emperor Akihito has devoted his 30-year reign to making amends for a war fought in his father's name, while adapting the 1,500-year-old monarchy to draw the Imperial Family closer to the public.
Whether kneeling beside Empress Michiko to speak intimately with disaster victims, or reciting his own poetry, Akihito has won deep affection among his people.
The 85-year-old emperor's true feelings are impossible to know, but his nuanced public comments and insights from his classmates show him to be a determined man open to new ideas and keenly aware of his duties.
Kazuo Oda, a retired trading house executive and longtime tennis buddy of Akihito's, describes his friend as "an earnest man".
Akihito's Heisei era will end when he abdicates on April 30 in favour of his elder son, 58-year-old Crown Prince Naruhito, beginning a new, as yet unnamed era.
The emperor cited his deteriorating health as his reason for stepping aside.
While his official duties have been scaled back somewhat, he still receives visiting dignitaries, attends ceremonies and makes official visits.
Inside the palace, he also performs private rituals of Shintoism, the indigenous religion intertwined with Japan's imperial family.
At his advanced age, Akihito no longer plays tennis as often as he used to.
He last played with Oda two years ago.
Akihito assumed the throne in January 1989 after the death of his father Hirohito, the long-serving emperor whose reign spanned World War II and Japan's postwar economic recovery.
At the time Hirohito was born, he was still considered a deity, though he renounced that status with Japan's surrender.
Akihito has enjoyed widespread respect and sympathy as a politically neutral figurehead.
But his frequent expressions of hope that Japan has taken to heart lessons from World War II have been seen by many Japanese as a form of subtle resistance toward efforts by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's hawkish government to expand the country's military role.
Oda first met the emperor when, as a junior high school student some 70 years ago, he tagged along with his elder brother to play tennis with Akihito on the palace grounds.
Oda had never played, and mostly just watched the others. When a palace driver came to pick them up afterward, Akihito insisted that Oda sit on his lap so all five of the boys could fit in the car.
Oda credits tennis for shaping Akihito as an emperor.
Playing tennis allowed him to meet a variety of people from well-to-do families, including, most importantly, the young flour milling heiress who became his wife, Michiko Shoda.
Oda said he hopes Akihito and Michiko might enjoy their retirement after his abdication, perhaps near a tennis court in scenic Karuizawa, where their romance began.
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