Japan's newborn prince named Hisahito: palace
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Japan's newborn prince, who is in line to be emperor, was given the name Hisahito in a traditional ceremony, the palace said.
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Japan's Princess Kiko entered the operating room to deliver her third child early Wednesday, news reports said, as the nation anxiously awaited word on whether the imperial family will have its first male heir in four decades.
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Japan's Emperor Akihito and members of the royal family greeted thousands of well-wishers at the Imperial Palace as they celebrated his 74th birthday on Sunday.
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Preparations are under way for the wedding of Japan&#39;s Princess Sayako and a 39-year-old government worker. Princess Sayako, 35, is the only daughter and youngest child of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko.
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Japan's ruling party on Sunday picked Yasuo Fukuda, who seeks warmer ties with Asian neighbors, to succeed Shinzo Abe as prime minister in an effort to revive the party's fortunes and fill a political vacuum.
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The Japanese Emperor arrived in Britain Sunday for a three-day visit that will see him carry out engagements including dinner with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.
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Emperor Akihito of Japan has paid tribute to an 18th-century Swedish scientist, Carl Linnaeus, saying his ground-breaking system of classifying wildlife helped ease Japan&#39;s long isolation with the rest of the world.
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Japan's Princess Kiko has given birth to the royal family's first boy in more than 40 years, easing a succession crisis and silencing calls to let a woman lead the world's oldest monarchy.
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The oldest member of the Japanese Royal family, Princess Takamatsu, dies of blood poisoning at a hospital in Tokyo.
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Japan's Emperor Akihito and his wife,   Empress Michiko, got the first glimpse on Sunday of their baby   grandson, the first male heir born into the imperial family in   more than four decades.
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arrived on a remote island in northern Japan to start a new life with his Japanese wife and their two daughters. court-martial last month after saying he deserted from South Korea because he was frightened.
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Japanese Emperor Akihito expressed pain  on Thursday that his eldest son had complained publicly about  the stress suffered by the crown princess, who is under  pressure to produce a male heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne.
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Conservatives keen to keep women from  ascending the Chrysanthemum Throne are hoping this week will  bring the answer to their prayers: the birth of Japan's first  imperial male heir in more than four decades.
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Sophie, Countess of Wessex, the wife of Queen Elizabeth II's youngest son Prince Edward, gave birth to a baby boy on Monday, Buckingham Palace said.
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JAPANâS troubled imperial family was finally able to celebrate yesterday as Princess Sayako, the only daughter of Emperor Akihito, and Yoshiki Kuroda, a Tokyo urban planner who lives with his mother, announced their engagement.
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Britain's royal family welcomed the birth of its newest member Monday, the son of Prince Edward and his 42-year-old wife, Sophie, Buckingham Palace said Monday.
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Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito will visit Mongolia in July, just one month after undergoing surgery, but without his wife who has not yet recovered from stress-related illness, the palace said.