Another Criticism of Prince Hisahito: "Compared to Princess Aiko, he seems to place more importance on 'ME'".
The choice of high school for Prince Hisahito, the only son of Prince Akishino and second in the order of succession to the throne, was reported spectacularly before Christmas that he would be attending Tsukuba University High School, a top preparatory school. This blog recently introduced the criticism by Mr. Yuji Odabe, Professor Emeritus at ShizuokaUniversity of Social Welfare , and on the 3rd of this month, the Asahi Shimbun-affiliated online media "AERA.dot" carried an interview with Mr. Hideya Kawanishi, a historian and Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University, who is an expert on the symbolic emperor system. Mr. Kawanishi's argument is as follows: Prince Hisahito is currently attending the junior high school attached to Ochanomizu University for Women. Ochanomizu Women's University is a coeducational school up to junior high school, but from high school on, it is an all-girls high school, and boys at the school have