Japanese Imperial Family Today

  On March 25, Her Imperial Highness Princess Yoko of Mikasa Family, 38, attended a lecture on the decline of hearing function in Iruma City, Saitama Prefecture. In her speech, she explained that she herself has sensorineural hearing loss and said, "Indifference is the worst thing. I hope that many people will spend time in a day wondering if their hearing is okay.”   Last December, Princess Yoko became the honorary president of the Japan Universal Sound Design Association, a non-profit organization that supports dialogue and other activities for people with hearing loss. In her speech, she described her own symptoms: "Basically, I cannot hear low sounds very well. He also has difficulty with high tones, so there are parts I cannot hear in people’s speech.”  She said that because of her position, it is difficult for her to hear back what the other person says, and she sometimes has to imagine the conversation herself, and there are times when she cannot hear what the Im

  The Imperial Household Agency announced that Her Imperial Highness Princess Akiko of Mikasa family, 40, will become a visiting professor at Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto City) as of April 1. She will give lectures on Japanese and Kyoto culture as a guest speaker for classes at the Faculty of Letters and the graduate school. The university has requested that Mr. Akira take up the position. The appointment will last for one year, until the end of March 2023.   Akiko worked at Ritsumeikan University's Kinugasa Research Institute from September 2009 to March 2011. Since then, she has continued to serve as an invited researcher and visiting cooperative researcher at the organization. This time,in addition to being a guest speaker, she is scheduled to speak at symposiums and lectures related to Kyoto's culture.   After graduating from Gakushuin University, Akiko conducted research on Japanese art collections abroad at Oxford University, and in 2010 she became the first fe

    Crown Prince and Princess Akishino will visit Ise Jingu Shrine in Mie Prefecture from April 20 to 23 as an event related to Rikkoshi no Rei, the ceremony to proclaim Akishino crown prince, which was postponed due to the Corona disaster.   However, there are reports that there is a gap between the couple.   According to a report in the Daily Shincho dated March 30, the couple currently has almost no daily conversation except for meetings on official business. The reason for this is that Kiko is said to resent Akishino's negative comments about the marriage of their daughter Mako and Kei Komuro at press conferences and other occasions, which has made it impossible to repair the relationship between Mako and her parents.   Furthermore, Kiko, exasperated, is said to come down hard on the Imperial Household Agency staff.   “When staff members ask Her Imperial Highness about work reports and other matters, no matter how we explain them, she is not convinced, but