Japan princess to wed government official
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Japan&#39;s Imperial Household Agency announced Sunday Japan&#39;s Princess Nori will wed a Tokyo Metropolitan Government official.
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A Japanese government panel begins work on whether to recommend women be allowed to take the throne.
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JapanÂs Princess Kiko gave birth on Wednesday to the first male heir born into the imperial family in more than four decades.
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Japan's Crown Princess Masako, who officials say is suffering from a mental disorder caused by the stress of adapting to royal life, may emerge from months of seclusion in September to attend a wedding in the tiny southeast Asian nation of Brunei, a court official said on Tuesday.
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A top Japanese business leader expressed  hope Monday that the impending betrothal of the emperor's only  daughter would help bolster Japan's economy, now showing signs  of a slowing recovery.
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Britain's heir-to-the throne Prince Charles is to marry his longtime lover Camilla Parker Bowles, his office announced on Thursday.
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Japan&#39;s Imperial Household Agency officially announced today that a Tokyo city bureaucrat is engaged to wed Princess Sayako. The 35-year-old princess is the only daughter of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko.
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Japan&#39;s ruling party wants to revise the constitution to allow a woman to succeed to the throne and to officially designate the emperor head of state, according to a draft proposal released on Wednesday.
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Former chess champion Bobby Fischer announced plans Monday to marry a leading Japanese chess official and appealed to Secretary of State Colin Powell to help him renounce U.S. citizenship, the latest in a series of moves as he seeks to block attempts to deport him to the United States.
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LONDON -- More than three decades after they first met, Prince Charles, Britain's heir to the throne, announced yesterday that he will marry his longtime partner, Camilla Parker Bowles, at Windsor Castle on April 8. The announcement stunned Britain, where many are only grudgingly accepting of the couple.
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British heir to the throne Prince  Charles said on Thursday he will marry long-time lover Camilla  Parker Bowles, the woman blamed for destroying his "fairytale"  marriage to the late Princess Diana.
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TOKYO - The government has begun studying the feasibility of allowing a woman to ascend to the Chrysanthemum throne as no male heirs have been born into the imperial family in almost 40 years, the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper reported Wednesday.
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The funeral for Princess Takamatsu, an aunt of Emperor Akihito who died Dec. 18 at age 92, was held Sunday at Toshimagaoka Cemetery in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo.
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Japan's long-awaited male heir to its Chrysanthemum throne was named Hisahito &#151; meaning "virtuous, calm and everlasting" &#151; in an age-old imperial rite in Tokyo on Tuesday.
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Prince Charles is to marry his partner Camilla Parker Bowles, the prince's office said Thursday.
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Princess Nori and her fiance, Yoshiki Kuroda, looked at each other at the press conference, as if to let their exchange of smiles tell how they felt about each other.
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Japan&#39;s littlest princess turned three on Wednesday as authorities grappled with the issue of whether to make legal changes that would one day allow her ascend the Chrysanthemum Throne.