Word: akihito
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long-planned TV series on Japanese orchestras. As part of the series, Tokyo's Gakushuin University Orchestra performed the third movement of Brahms' fourth symphony, and viewers got the royal treatment. In the string section of the orchestra was Prince Hiro, 18, eldest son of Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko. The prince, a freshman, has chosen to follow in his father's footsteps and attend a public university. And like both his parents, with whom he plays in a trio at the palace (his father is an accomplished cellist and his mother plays the piano...
...mounted shows from Moscow to Milan, Manhattan to Paris (where Sofu was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor). Last week in Tokyo he formally opened his school's eleven-story headquarters building, designed by Japanese Architect Kenzo Tange. It overlooks the palace of Crown Prince Akihito, whose family has traditionally been a patron of the flower...
...scant six feet of space separated Japanese Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko from tragedy. The first members of the royal family to visit Okinawa in 54 years, Akihito and Michiko had stopped to place a wreath at a World War II memorial when a helmeted attacker tossed a Molotov cocktail that landed two yards from their feet. Miraculously unhurt, the couple retreated to their car while police arrested two radical students for the firebombing. Okinawa was the scene of 187,000 Japanese deaths during World War II, and last week's attack served as a grim reminder...
...time-honored Japanese tradition, autumn is the season for colorful athletic contests. Even Princess Nori, 5, the only daughter of Japanese Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko, took part in the meet held at the kindergarten of the Peer's School where she is a second-year student. Her mother and brother, Prince Aya, 8, rooted warmly from the sidelines, and Nori ran as fast as her little royal legs would go. But princesses too sometimes lose a race, and Nori, who was too busy laughing to mind, finished third in her group of eight...
Japan's Imperial Household Agency, which keeps a little list of royal dos and don'ts, was aghast. As her parents, Crown Prince Akihito, 39, and Princess Michiko, 39, left Tokyo's Togu Palace for a ten-day official tour of Spain, their daughter, Nori, 4, planted on her mother's cheek the first public Imperial kiss. While the royal family does occasionally come out from behind its chrysanthemum curtain-Empress Nagako was recently permitted to exhibit her water-colors-such decadent occidentalism as kissing in public was unprecedented. However, it proved catching: arriving in Madrid...