Word: masako
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...early 1990s, reporters came looking for material about Japan’s Crown Princess Masako ’85, who had worked at the institute during her years at Harvard and whose marriage was then in the news...
...addition to the sessions with Prime Minister Koizumi and former and current finance ministers, Summers met with members of the Japanese royal family, including Crown Princess Masako ’85. Summers gave Masako, who trained under Summers’ colleague, Harvard economist Jeffrey D. Sachs, a baby-sized Harvard tee-shirt for her newborn baby...
...Princess Aiko When her diplomat mom married her dad, Crown Prince Naruhito, back in 1993, young Japanese women expected Crown Princess Masako to become a role model. Instead of shaking up the ossified imperial household, the Harvard graduate almost disappeared from public view. Now the modernizing mantle falls on little Princess Aiko, born Dec. 1. With no male sibling yet, she has set the nation to discussing the unthinkable: allowing a woman to ascend to the Chrysanthemum Throne. Surprisingly, more than 86% of Japanese think Empress Aiko sounds just fine...
...brand-new daughter of Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito and Princess Masako, right, born on Saturday, carries a lot of weight for someone who weighs 6 lbs. and change. Cultural and political observers hoped the royal pair's first child, still unnamed, would help bring the nation out of a funk born of a years-long economic bust. Japanese did celebrate in the streets, but there was a hitch. Under current rules, only a male can be Emperor, and since Naruhito's brother has two daughters, there remains no legal heir to succeed Naruhito on the Chrysanthemum Throne. (Remember, folks...
...enliven even the blandest of people. "They have been so formal and subdued, they created a huge gap between the average Japanese and the royal family, which drove people to stop caring," says 34-year-old Toshiaki Ozeki, a gym instructor. But Ozeki is a royal convert now. Masako's miscarriage two years ago, Naruhito's obvious anger with the way the news media treated the tragedy and Saturday's successful birth all served to make the royals seem more human, more like Ozeki and his girlfriend, who cope day in and day out with life's ups and downs...