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...schedule is completely controlled by the IHA. They aren't allowed to have opinions, passports or even last names. Stifled by the IHA, Masako crumbled under the intense pressure to perform her single duty: to bear a male heir. In 2001, after one miscarriage, she finally bore Princess Aiko, who remains the couple's only child. Not long after the birth, Masako succumbed to a depression that many blamed on the intense pressure placed on her to produce a son. She withdrew from her official duties, and at 43, seems extremely unlikely to produce another child...
...eons of tradition, the Japanese throne can pass only to males with emperors on the father's side. But no boys have been born into the family since 1965. Crown Prince Naruhito, 45, and his wife Masako, 42, have had only one daughter, 4-year-old Aiko. Naruhito's brother, Prince Akishino, 40, and his wife, Kiko, 39, have two daughters. So Koizumi's panel suggested that succession should pass to the Emperor's firstborn, regardless of gender. Assuming that Naruhito succeeds his father, Emperor Akihito, Aiko would then be in line for the throne. The panel's plan seemed...
...Imperial Household Agency that the unhappy princess had been diagnosed with an "adjustment disorder.") The favorite target of the press was the agency, the secretive bureaucracy that micromanages the Japanese royals, which is allegedly concerned that the 41-year-old Masako has given birth only to a daughter, Princess Aiko, who cannot succeed to the throne. The agency has gone so far as to request Emperor Akihito's second son, Prince Fumihito, to have a third child. (Fumihito is the father of two girls...
While setting up various decorations in the tokonoma—a small alcove in the tearoom used to display objects such as burning incense and flower arrangements—the group’s teacher, Aiko Rodgers Somi, explains some of the intricate details of the ceremony. For example, the calligraphy in the tokonoma corresponds with the season; because September is the moon month in Japan, it reads, “Moonlight shining on pine...
...Masako would prefer to live like many modern European monarchs: basically as regular citizens but with nicer houses, cool crowns and invitations to all the best parties. And opinion polls indicate that most Japanese would approve of changing the laws to allow Masako's two-year-old daughter, Princess Aiko, to become Empress someday. But that doesn't seem to be the opinion of the household agency, the powerful and secretive bureaucracy that controls every facet of the royals' lives, including their finances, their (practically nonexistent) social lives and even access to their phone lines...