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More than sheltered has been Japan's little Crown Prince Akihito; he has lived in a positive vacuum. At the age of three he was removed even from his own family, shut up in a house of 774 mats (3,096 square yards of floor space) on the Palace grounds, under the constant surveillance of four tutors, two governesses, three physicians and 60 retainers. At the age of five he was permitted to meet eight hand-picked noble moppets, who visited his compound on Saturdays and squabbled over his princely bicycle and sandbox, while Akihito stood by and gaped...
Recently six-year-old Akihito's day has begun at 6:30 a.m., when he rises to meditate on his ancestors and bow to photographs of his parents. Then he romps all day in the Palace grounds. Once a fortnight he attends the peers' kindergarten, where he outbellows all his little comrades in patriotic songs...
Empress Nagako gave patriotic Japanese the jitters by producing four daughters before giving birth in 1933 to a son and heir to the world's oldest unbroken dynasty. Cute, deadpan Crown Prince Akihito ("The prince of the August Succession and Enlightened Benevolence") is now five years old, has his own palace, likes to climb trees and ride on the palace lawn in his toy automobile and bicycle. Twenty young sons of peers come to play with him in shifts on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Last week four more noble playmates with special talents were chosen to match Akihito...
Inasmuch as Japan's Imperial succession passes only to males, prolific Empress Nagako had the Japanese jittery for years as, four times in a row, she gave birth to girls. Five years ago she relieved their fears, gave birth to Crown Prince Akihito and two years later produced another boy-child...
...world Press last week went a photograph of a small, solemn baby just four months old. It was the first official portrait of His Celestial Highness Tsugu-no-Miya Akihito, Crown Prince of Japan (see cut). That this sober infant may inherit an empire as great as it is venerable, Japan's ministers last week risked once more the world's wrath...