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MARRIED. PRINCESS SAYAKO, 36, only daughter of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan, and her childhood friend, urban planner YOSHIKI KURODA, 40; in a small ceremony attended by their families; in Tokyo. In preparation for her new life--it's the first time an Emperor's daughter has wed a commoner--she took driving lessons and practiced supermarket shopping...
MARRIED. PRINCESS SAYAKO, 36, only daughter of Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, to YOSHIKI KURODA, 40, a city planner and childhood friend; in Tokyo. Sayako loses her royal status by marrying a commoner and will move out of the Imperial Palace to a rented one-bedroom apartment. The former Princess has quit her job as an ornithological researcher to practice her cooking and learn to drive before becoming a housewife. She will pay taxes and no longer receive a royal stipend, although she will be given a lump sum of $1.3 million to start her new life...
ENGAGED. PRINCESS SAYAKO, 35, to Yoshiki Kuroda, a 39-year-old government employee; in Tokyo. The princess, who is the only daughter of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, drew praise from many single Japanese women for her decision to delay marriage until she found the right partner. Her fianc? is an urban planner for the Tokyo metropolitan administration and is reported to be a close school friend of the princess's elder brother, Prince Fumihito...
...long after my talk with Fay, I encountered Japanese primatologist Masazumi Mitani, who along with Suehisa Kuroda established the first research camps at the edge of the Ndoki region in 1987. Since then, the Japanese researchers, in cooperation with Congolese scientist Antoine Ruffin Oko, have conducted a groundbreaking survey of animal populations in the Ndoki and have closely studied the primates, including gorillas and chimps. Mitani told me the animals were indeed unafraid of humans, but warned that conditions in the region were "very, very difficult." Knowing the extreme privation Japanese primatologists regularly endure, I took these cautionary words very...
...real barrier. Unnavigable and meandering, it is 3 m (10 ft.) deep in places and spreads out into swamps several kilometers wide. Even at its shallowest points, it can take eight hours to cross on foot and is impassable much of the year. We use a pirogue that Kuroda's team has built to resupply his tiny station. Parched by the precarious walk to this point, we cool ourselves with the absolutely pure waters of the Ndoki as we pole through the river grass. Fay thinks he knows why the Pygmies have historically kept to the west side...