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Given a document and an entity the task is to select the author's sentiment towards the entity. Sentiments can be Positive, Neutral and Negative. Select Positive if the article expresses a positive view towards the given entity or praises its quality or skills. Select Neutral if the document expresses no clear view towards the entity or has equal amounts of positive and negative statements or expressing some fact/quote by someone else. Select Negative if the article expresses a negative view towards like harsh remarks, criticizing entities action/decision etc. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
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What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Akihito ? TOKYO (Reuters) -  Japan’s Emperor Akihito  is likely to abdicate at the end of March 2019 and Crown Prince Naruhito is expected to ascend the throne in April  the first abdication by a Japanese monarch in nearly two centuries  the Asahi newspaper reported on Friday.
In June  Japan’s parliament passed a law allowing Emperor  Akihito  to abdicate and the government needs to hammer out the details including the timing.
 Akihito   83  who has had heart surgery and treatment for prostate cancer  said in rare public remarks last year he feared age might make it hard for him to continue to fulfill his duties.
Japan's Empress Michiko poses for a photo with Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo  in this handout picture taken October 4  2017 and provided by the Imperial Household Agency of Japan. Imperial Household Agency of Japan/HANDOUT via Reuters
The abdication law  which applies only to Akihito and not to future emperors  included a resolution to debate letting female royals stay in the imperial family after marriage but did not touch on the controversial topic of allowing women to inherit.
Asahi said the expected 2019 abdication schedule would minimize the impact on people in changing to a new imperial reign from the current Heisei Era  which started in 1989 after the death of  Akihito ’s father Hirohito  according to the Asahi.
 Akihito   the first Japanese emperor who was never considered divine  has worked for decades at home and abroad to soothe the wounds of World War Two which was fought in  his  father Hirohito’s name.
The Empress also said she felt “an immeasurable sense of peace” that Akihito will be able to rest and spend quiet days after years of pursuing how the Emperor should be.
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Positive


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What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Sulaiman al-Jumeii ? Lawyer Sulaiman al-Jumeii said he plans to appeal the court's ruling and is confident the sentence against his client  which includes a ban on travel and talking to the media for five years after his release  will be revoked.
 Al-Jumeii maintains that his client  Mazen Abdul-Jawad  was duped by the Lebanese LBC satellite channel which aired the talk show and was unaware in many cases he was being recorded.
 The other three men on the show were also convicted of discussing sex publicly and sentenced to two years imprisonment and 300 lashes each  according to al-Jumeii.
 In his statement  al-Jumeii said the decision in the case was made "under pressure from public opinion" due to the media frenzy surrounding it.
 He also said he will continue pursuing a lawsuit he has filed against LBC.
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Neutral


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What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Joe Paterno ? As school leaders try to move on   Joe Paterno  loyalists  including many university trustees  continue to fight over the coachâs role in  his  assistantâs crimes.
In July  Penn Stateâs board of trustees met to discuss the most important issues facing a school system with 99 000 students and a $5.7 billion budget. It took about three hours before someone brought up Jerry Sandusky and  Joe Paterno .
Supporters of  Joe Paterno   right  question the evidence used to conclude  he  ignored or covered up the assaults committed by Jerry Sandusky  left. (1999 photo by Paul Vathis/Associated Press)
Law enforcement officials  victimsâ lawyers and private investigators â including Louis Freeh  the former FBI director who authored a damning 2012 report that asserted  Paterno âs involvement in a coverup â say the dispute results from stubborn âPaterno-deniers â âJoebotsâ and âtruthers â for whom no evidence will be strong enough to condemn the beloved former football coach.
âThe tragedy of all of this is that it is self-perpetuated and self-inflicted â said Tom Kline  an attorney for one victim. âThey have settled on an endless assault on anyone who dares suggest that there was something that happened that was wrong and that the fault lies at the doorstep of either  Paterno  or the football program.â
But alumni trustees and supporters insist  Paterno  and the school were victims of a rush to judgment that spared other  more culpable organizations â most notably the Second Mile  Sanduskyâs charity for at-risk children â from public scorn. They point to conflicting accounts of the assault at the core of the coverup case  evidence the NCAA may have influenced Freehâs report and doubts about claims  Paterno  ignored assaults as far back as the 1970s.
According to Freeh  in 2001   Paterno  and three university administrators â president Graham Spanier  athletic director Tim Curley and senior vice president Gary Schultz â decided to conceal a report of Sandusky assaulting a boy  to avoid bad publicity for the university and its football team. The men displayed a âcallous and shocking disregard for child victims â Freeh said  as they âempowered Sanduskyâ to abuse boys for another decade.
Freehâs verdict capped an unimaginable downfall for  Paterno   who just eight months before seemed poised to retire as the winningest  most respected coach in the history of college football. In 46 years as head coach  heâd piled up 409 wins and two national championships while professing selflessness and education  fielding teams that wore simple jerseys with no names on the back  his players graduating at rates that outpaced competitors. In the venal world of college football   Paterno  built a reputation as a coach who valued integrity over winning â âSuccess with Honorâ was his motto â and now he stood accused of covering up for a pedophile to protect his public image.
In including  Paterno   Freeh had gone further than prosecutors  who would charge the administrators with crimes but said they did not believe  Paterno  participated. In defending his conclusion  Freeh cited âthe most important evidence in the caseâ: a chain of emails between the three administrators from 2001.
A newspaper with the headline rewritten was left near a statue of  Paterno  outside Beaver Stadium on Jan. 23  2012  the day after he died. (Alex Brandon/Associated Press) Freeh conceded his reportâs condemnation of  Paterno  was made without knowledge of what was said in  Paterno âs meeting with Curley. (Matt Rourke/Associated Press)
The emails showed the men planned to report Sandusky to child welfare authorities but changed course after Curley met with  Paterno . Instead  they banned Sandusky from bringing children to Penn State and informed the Second Mile of the incident. Sandusky was convicted of assaulting four boys after this incident.
In an email  one trustee urged then-Penn State president Rod Erickson to tear down the statue of  Paterno  outside the stadium  if it would pacify the NCAA.
Eleven days after Freehâs news conference  the NCAA announced that Penn State had entered into a âconsent decree â accepting a $60 million fine and the erasing of all of Paternoâs wins after 1998  the year Sandusky was investigated â but cleared â by Penn State police and a state child welfare agency. Freeh had concluded  Paterno  should have suspected then his assistant was a pedophile.
Penn State students protested the schoolâs handling of the Sandusky scandal. (2011 photo by Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press) Students also honored the memory of  Paterno  after  his  death at age 85. (2012 photo by Gary Cameron/Reuters)
The lawsuit also produced communications between NCAA staffers and Freehâs team that prompted some alumni to theorize Freeh catered his report â which  by including  Paterno   put the case squarely in the NCAAâs crosshairs â to appeal to a desired client.
The NCAA is only a part of why some alumni feel the school and  Paterno  took a disproportionate share of the blame  Schmidt said  before explaining theories involving a former governor and the Second Mile.
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Neutral