Word: gakushuin
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...beginning was 1979, when Miyazaki graduated from Tokyo's Elite Gakushuin University. A scion of the family that founded Miyazaki Airplane, which manufactured parts for the Zero fighter, he studied economics and political science but preferred reading Moby Dick and Tom Sawyer. After graduation he tossed convention aside by joining an animation production company, where he met his lifelong colleague and sometime creative collaborator, Isao Takahata. They struck out on their own in 1985 with Studio Ghibli?named by Miyazaki, an aircraft buff, after a vintage Italian plane...
When Japanese Conductor Seiji Ozawa went home for a visit with his orchestra, the Boston Symphony, last March, he took time out for a special project: a 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...
...descended from its divine status a generation ago, and now it cultivates a more mundane image. So there was no effort to disguise the triumphant glee with which seven-year-old Prince Aya, second son of Crown Prince Akihito, gripped his newest honor: a diploma from Tokyo's Gakushuin kindergarten...
...Japanese royal family had a ball at the Gakushuin Kindergarten annual autumn games when four-year-old Prince Aya managed to take the play away from one of his classmates right in front of his proud oapa-san and mama -Crown Prince Akihite and Princess Michiko...
...bubbly Princess Suga, 20-year-old sister of Prince Akihito, had no objections. Some time this fall, the imperial household announced, Suga will wed a childhood friend, gangly Hisanaga Shimazu, 25. bank clerk, scion of a blue-blooded family and a classmate of Akihito's at the Gakushuin (Peers' School). According to custom. Hisanaga had called on his future father-in-law, who will build the newlyweds a house and provide a $42,000 dowry. And what, asked newsmen, had the Emperor said? "He just asked me to take good care of his daughter...