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...Crown Prince's unpretentious residence half a mile from the Imperial Palace. But reports soon filtered out that Empress Nagako resented the intrusion of a commoner into the family. The situation was exacerbated when, in another break with tradition, Akihito and Michiko chose to raise their children -- Prince Hiro, now 28, Prince Aya, 23, and Princess Nori, 19 -- at home. In 1986 they stepped further into workaday modernity when they took their first subway ride...
...Crown Prince, Akihito began his workday at 10 a.m., planning public appearances and receiving visitors. Later the family would gather in the palace sitting room for tea and cake -- and for Prince Hiro, perhaps a slug of whiskey, which he learned to savor during two years at Oxford's Merton College. The eligible Prince Hiro, an aspiring historian, overshadows his father in the public mind because Japanese newspapers have unleashed squads of reporters to cover the big story: whom he will marry and when...
...particular, the Japanese are taking America's skylines by storm. They have invested an estimated $7 billion ($5.5 billion last year alone) in office towers and other buildings. Oil-company headquarters are a favorite: Hiro Real Estate last month paid $250 million for Mobil Oil's 42-story Manhattan headquarters tower. An older landmark, Fifth Avenue's Tiffany building, was sold last November to Dai-ichi America Real Estate for $94 million. Where landmarks are not available, seascapes will do: in Hawaii, Japanese investors own more than half of the twelve major hotels along Waikiki Beach...
...might be the next best catch to British royalty. And with Mark's proclivity for controversial business deals and driving fast sports cars, a Fortson heiress should be a stabilizing, not to say supportive, influence. After church, at a gala lunch, with guests including Japan's Prince Hiro (now at Oxford) and Britain's Princess Alexandra, one can imagine that there was more than a single set of crossed fingers under the table...
...contrast between the blundering ways of man and the sometimes harsh, sometimes subtle efficiency with which a natural environment functions when left to its own devices. As the Mowat character, Charles Martin Smith plays with ingratiating innocence, stubborn and plucky. His art, like that of Ballard's cameraman, Hiro Narita, lies in understatement that does not imply dispassion. Ballard and his masterly crew of film makers have reimagined a corner of the natural world, metaphorically connecting the cold spaces and indifferent silences of a vast land with the heated struggle for existence taking place closer to the ground, nearer...