Japanese Imperial Family Today

    Her Imperial Highness Princess Toshinomiya Aiko, the only daughter of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, celebrated her 20th birthday on December 1. Continuing from the previous article, I would like to introduce Princess Aiko's essay written five years ago at her graduation from junior high school.  This essay then gave birth to a wonderful episode  four years later.  

    Her Imperial Highness Princess Toshinomiya Aiko of the Imperial Household celebrated her 20th birthday on December 1. Her essays from her junior high school days are attracting renewed attention.   The following is the full text of "Aiko the Nurse," a short story written by Princess Aiko in her first year at Gakushuin Junior High School.