IHA calls for ‘Quiet Watching’ of Hisahito’s Admission
At a regular press conference on January
27, Yasuhiko Nishimura, director general of the Imperial Household Agency, the
government agency with jurisdiction over the Imperial Family, asked for
understanding, saying, "We would like you to watch over the progress quietly," in response to the
string of reports in weekly magazines and on the Internet about the high school
that Prince Hisahito, the only son of the Akishino family, will enter this
spring.
Prince Hisahito is currently in his third
year of junior high school at Ochanomizu University. The high school attached
to Ochanomizu University is an all-girls school, so there has been a lot of
attention on where he will go to school. Some weekly magazines have reported
that he has been accepted to the high school attached to Tsukuba University,
which has an "affiliated school admission system" with his current school,
without any examination. Mr. Nishimura complained, "How is it that every
week there are reports on the advancement of a minor who is in his examination
season, and there are also articles that seem to be based on conjecture?”
However, when this article was posted on news sites, it drew harsh critical comments such as, "Isn't it a mistake to overlook rather than watch?” and "The problem is that he is admitted in such a way as to arouse suspicion in the public."
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