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“She was a really serious and talented student who was a little bit on the shy side,” Gordon said. “She was working at a very high level.”
After leaving Harvard, Owada knew she wanted to continue in her father’s footsteps and join the Foreign Ministry. In 1986, she enrolled in the law department at Tokyo University to study for the Ministry’s entrance exam. She entered the Ministry only a year later?...
But only months after starting at the Foreign Ministry, Owada’s life took another turn. At a banquet in Tokyo, Owada met Crown Prince Naruhito, the bachelor prince. While the prince immediately took to Owada, there were obstacles to marriage. A Crown Princess, by Japanese tradition, must come...
Amid rumors and pressure from the Japanese media, Owada left Japan in 1988 for a two-year, Foreign Minsitry-sponsored study at Oxford. But in 1993, the Imperial Household announced the engagement, and that June Owada became Crown Princess of Japan, only the second commoner to ever marry into the...
—Staff writer Stephanie B. Garlock can be reached at sgarlock@college.harvard.edu.