Word: nori
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Japanese mother playing happily with her child looks as if she had all the time in the world. Actually, Crown Princess Michiko of Japan stole a few moments from her hectic schedule to celebrate her 42nd birthday with Princess Nori, 7, the youngest of her three children, and Nori's pet dogs (they are chin, Japanese spaniels). In honor of the occasion, the crown princess granted a rare press conference and told reporters about her official visits this year to Yugoslavia, Jordan and Britain. As for the royal birthday, the princess joked: "You know, my classmates hate this time...
...time-honored Japanese tradition, autumn is the season for colorful athletic contests. Even Princess Nori, 5, the only daughter of Japanese Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko, took part in the meet held at the kindergarten of the Peer's School where she is a second-year student. Her mother and brother, Prince Aya, 8, rooted warmly from the sidelines, and Nori ran as fast as her little royal legs would go. But princesses too sometimes lose a race, and Nori, who was too busy laughing to mind, finished third in her group of eight...
Japan's Imperial Household Agency, which keeps a little list of royal dos and don'ts, was aghast. As her parents, Crown Prince Akihito, 39, and Princess Michiko, 39, left Tokyo's Togu Palace for a ten-day official tour of Spain, their daughter, Nori, 4, planted on her mother's cheek the first public Imperial kiss. While the royal family does occasionally come out from behind its chrysanthemum curtain-Empress Nagako was recently permitted to exhibit her water-colors-such decadent occidentalism as kissing in public was unprecedented. However, it proved catching: arriving in Madrid...
Crown Prince Akihito of Japan must have glowed with pride over his daughter Princess Nori as she was photographed at Togu Palace in Tokyo on her first birthday. With regal bearing, earnest mien and a firm grip on her free-form hobbyhorse, Nori looked ready to take the helm of the ship of state...