Word: akihito
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...took the Emperor's children to give the monarchy back its common touch. Crown Prince Akihito married the pretty and lively commoner, Michiko, and soon sired Prince Hiro, who was instantly Japan's favorite baby. Hirohito's daughter, Princess Suga, wed a commoner bank clerk, now whips around town shopping in her Japanese-made Cedric. Though traditionalists were horrified, the two girls became more popular than movie stars. One magazine, Ladies' Own, ran a feature story on one or the other of them every week last year but two. On an extensive good-will tour abroad...
After going official rounds in Washington, including a state reception at the White House, Japan's Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko fell into a vacation mood and headed for Manhattan. From a City Hall welcome, Akihito, a noted ichthyophile, dashed a block away to a commercial aquarium-stock store, purchased some rare breeds of fish (imported to await his arrival) and arranged for them to be aboard his chartered plane when he flies back fo Tokyo this week. It was not on the crown prince's official schedule, but he was anxious to say hello...
Japan's commoners caught their first glimpse of their new prince, Naruhito Hironomiya, and his commoner mother, Crown Princess Michiko. All bundled against the cold, the two-week-old princeling was whisked from the Imperial Household Hospital to home and daddy, Crown Prince Akihito...
...Takako Suganomiya (meaning: noble, pure), Princess Suga, 21, jazz-loving daughter (youngest of five) of Japan's Emperor Hirohito; and Hisanaga Shimazu, 25, tall, thin, $50-a-month bank clerk; in a 20-minute Shinto ceremony in a Tokyo restaurant attended by Hirohito, Empress Nagako and Crown Prince Akihito, followed by a Western reception complete with cake and cutting...
...Would Akihito, the first heir to the throne ever to marry a commoner, bend to the stifling ritual that is gradually isolating his father, the Emperor? Would he allow his son to be taken from him at the age of three to be raised by chamberlains in a separate palace? Akihito had said no, and his princess had even declared that she wanted her son to attend a kindergarten with "ordinary children." It was enough to make a conscientious imperial chamberlain wince. Protested one last week: "It is untrue that we resist change. Why, this prince was bathed...