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...MEMBER OF THE JAPANESE IMPERIAL HOUSEHOLD ANSWERING CRITICS WHO SAY THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS ARE SQUANDERING PUBLIC MONEY ON A NEW 100-ROOM PALACE
Back when she was a student at Harvard, Masako Owada introduced some of her friends to a card game called Emperor. The various players drew titles from emperor to commoner. Funny thing was that Owada always managed to win: when she played she always turned out to be empress...
...move forward. Its members are often seen as prisoners of the Imperial Household Agency, a 1,132-person bureaucracy that controls everything from rigid security to silver service to press interviews (almost none). It is hard for an outsider to adapt to such a sequestered life. Michiko, the present Empress, who married Emperor Akihito in 1959, is, like Owada, a commoner. She broke ground by insisting on certain innovations, such as raising her children ) herself. She suffered for her determination, coming close to a nervous breakdown in the 1960s...
According to Rudenstine, his March 26 meeting with the Japanese emperor and empress at Akasaka Imperial Palace lasted for more than an hour...
Rudenstine met with most of the top leaders of the Japanese government, including Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, and present and former prime ministers, as well as the current foreign minister and the ministers of education and finance...