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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...
...choice was hard because Masako Owada had another world at her feet -- one earned by her own efforts rather than inherited or acquired by marriage -- that was incompatible with membership in the imperial family. Until she resigned last January, she was a rising young member of the Foreign Ministry, conducting shuttle diplomacy with Washington on such issues as semiconductor trade talks and Japan's refusal to accept foreign lawyers. At 29, with graceful, perfect English and a sharp, analytical mind, she had a chance to pierce the glass ceiling that prevents Japanese women from rising to prestigious positions in government...
...countrymen. The winning of Masako-san, the familiar and endearing title by which she is usually called, is seen as a triumph for the imperial family. On an international level, the press is avid: unlike the feckless Brits and the sulky Grimaldis, this pair are good-news royals, appealing, admirable and with the allure of mystery. Tabloids and weeklies have become fascinated by the young woman with the Mona Lisa smile and habit of looking upward from downcast eyes -- not unlike the young Lady Di. At home, Masakomania dominates the thriving women's magazine business, although Owada has given...
...talk about the crown prince saying 'I will put all my might in protecting you my entire life.' Some of my friends said, 'I want someone to say that to me,' but my reaction was that the imperial household must be quite a place if Masako Owada needs to be protected...
...Masako-san choose to enter this world? Around Tokyo, many young people speculate that the reason might be as simple as the ticking of the biological clock. She was nearing 30, late for a Japanese woman to marry and have children. And with the crown prince in the picture, very few men would be willing to court her. A more serious explanation is suggested by various teachers. It has to do with the fact that she is deeply Japanese in her outlook and that the call to duty, as well as the promise of love, was strong. On both sides...