Japanese Princess Announces Engagement
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After years of disappointing speculation about suitors, the engagement of Princess Sayako to a Tokyo city bureaucrat, a commoner, became official today with an announcement by Japanâs Imperial Household Agency.
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Japan's Princess Kiko gave birth on   Wednesday to a baby boy, the first imperial male heir to be   born in more than four decades and the answer to the prayers of   conservatives keen to keep women off the ancient throne.
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Japan has gotten its first glance at Prince Hisahito, the long-awaited new heir to the throne, who had a full head of hair and slept calmly in his mother's arms as he was brought out of the hospital.
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Princess Sayako, the only daughter of Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, will marry a 39-year-old official working with Tokyo's metropolitan government, press reports said.
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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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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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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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After a year of death, illness and internal rifts, Japan&#39;s royal family is ending 2004 on a brighter note, with confirmation yesterday that Princess Sayako, the emperor&#39;s only daughter, is to marry a Tokyo civil servant next summer.
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Japan tunes in to witness creature's birth.
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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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Hundreds of mourners paid their final respects Sunday to Princess Kikuko, the emperor&#39;s aunt who was seen as one of the most progressive members of Japan&#39;s tradition-bound royal family.
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Princess Sayako, the only daughter of Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, on Saturday postponed the announcement of her engagement due to the death of her great-aunt, an official said.
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Japan's Empress Michiko attended a flower exhibition on Thursday, two days after an announcement that she is suffering from what appears to be a stress-related illness, in another sign of tension in the royal family.
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A Japanese chess great who plans to marry  former world champion Bobby Fischer and help him avoid  deportation home to the United States declared herself on  Thursday to be a pawn seeking to become a queen.
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Japan's Princess Kiko gave birth on   Wednesday to a baby boy -- the first male heir to be born into   the ancient 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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TOKYO, Nov. 14. - Princess Nori, the 35-year-old daughter of the Japanese Emperor and Empress, will become engaged to Mr Yoshiki Kuroda (39), a Tokyo metropolitan government official, sources said today.