Japanese emperor&#39;s only daughter to wed
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Tokyo: Japan on Thursday ended a year of disasters on a happy note with the royal family announcing that the emperor&#39;s only daughter Princess Sayako will marry, a piece of good news delayed twice by tragedy.
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TOKYO, Japan -- The Japanese woman who plans to marry former world chess champion Bobby Fischer says their feelings are genuine.
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TOKYO - Princess Sayako, the 35-year-old daughter of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, will marry Yoshiki Kuroda, an official of the Tokyo metropolitan government, well-placed sources said Sunday.
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Raising kids, cooking meals and chatting  to ordinary people -- Empress Michiko&#39;s sweeping changes to  Japan&#39;s ultra-conservative imperial family has made her an  endearing figure to the masses.
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Former chess champion Bobby Fischer, facing deportation to the US, plans to marry a Japanese national.
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Japan will set up a task force to consider allowing a reigning empress, an official said Monday - the government's first review of a post-World War II law that limits imperial succession to men.
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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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Japanese media have mobilized for the   expected birth of a royal baby who conservatives hope will be   the first imperial male heir in more than 40 years.
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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&#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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Japan&#39;s Princess Sayako, the only daughter of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, plans to marry a 39-year-old Tokyo metropolitan government official early next year, media reports said Sunday.
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Japan's Princess Kiko, pregnant with a   possible heir to the Chrysanthemum throne, is to give birth on   Wednesday, an official at the Imperial Household Agency said on   Friday.
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Editor&#39;s Note: Published on page A1 of the Dec. 30, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. IVY CATHERINE Tomenio, along with her Japanese husband and their three young children, left their
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The Japanese government said Monday it has set up a panel of external experts to discuss the issue of imperial succession, apparently to consider the feasibility of allowing a woman to ascend the throne.
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Princess Sayako, the 35-year-old only daughter of the Japanese emperor, is set to marry a commoner and leave the imperial family, Japanese media said on Sunday.
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Many Japanese singles are still singing the "Wedding Bell Blues" despite the pending nuptials of an imperial family member next year, so an Internet matchmaker is aggressively courting heartache in the Land of the Rising Sun.
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Princess Sayako, the only daughter of Japan&#39;s Emperor and Empress, will marry a Tokyo urban planner, the imperial palace has informed, perking up a nation recently hit by a series of deadly earthquakes.