Japanese Imperial Family Today

    On January 28th, at a regular press conference, Takaharu Kaji, a close aide of the Akishino family, commented, "I think it is regrettable that such an article should appear at a stage when there is no announcement or anything about her marriage.” He requested that the media refrain from speculating about the marriage and said, "I would like you to watch over her quietly.”   It was only a short time after the fiasco between Mako (30), the eldest daughter of the Akishino family, and Kei Komuro (30) had died down that the second daughter, Kako (27), was reported to be getting married one after another in the weekly magazines.   As for Kako, her passionate love affair with the son of the president of Fuji Express emerged in 2017.   Most recently, at the end of last year, "Shukan Josei" took a close look at a younger man, Mr. A (24), as a potential new boyfriend. He is a graduate of the University of Leeds, where Kako studied from September 2005 to Ju

  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