She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.

Market talk in Tokyo on the 26th was less on the Nikkei's new high, but on the broader TOPIX index which reached a high for the year. The TOPIX tends to lag behind the blue chip heavy Nikkei.

How would that yellow number 2 pencil look as an ornament, inserted through a pierced ear-lobe or nasal septum?

Or perhaps your Islamophobism is keeping you these disease filled masses called Muslims? :o Let the West leave alone those whom they consider inferior and I will show you how prosperous they become. Muslims used to be in the lead of science. Non-Muslims came from all corners of the world to be educated by Muslims (see Islam, an Empire of Faith.)