Word: suga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...selection was made by Mom and Dad. but Japan's bubbly Princess Suga, 20-year-old sister of Prince Akihito, had no objections. Some time this fall, the imperial household announced, Suga will wed a childhood friend, gangly Hisanaga Shimazu, 25. bank clerk, scion of a blue-blooded family and a classmate of Akihito's at the Gakushuin (Peers' School). According to custom. Hisanaga had called on his future father-in-law, who will build the newlyweds a house and provide a $42,000 dowry. And what, asked newsmen, had the Emperor said? "He just asked...
Five members of Japan's royal family obligingly strolled out on the Imperial Palace grounds in Tokyo, beamed down on Anastasia, a pet dog of Prince Alcihito (TIME, Dec. 30). With Akihito were his pretty sister Princess Suga, 18, Empress Nagako, Poetaster Emperor Hirohito (whose New Year verse on the clouds will be published next week) and 22-year-old Prince Yoshi...