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Princess Aiko

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Aiko plays the cello during a concert at Gakushuin school in Tokyo's Mejiro district on April 13, 2014. Her father Crown Prince Naruhito played the viola in the same concert. (Pool photo)

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Princess Aiko playing cello

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Aiko, the only daughter of Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako, plays cello in an All Gakushuin School concert in Tokyo's Mejiro district on April 15, 2012. The 10-year-old princess attends Gakushuin Primary School. (Pool photo)

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Princess Aiko sings songs at all-Gakushuin concert event

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Aiko, daughter of Crown Prince Naruhito and Princess Masako, sings songs with her kindergarten friends at an all-Gakushuin concert event at Tokyo's Mejiro campus on April 15. (Pool photo)

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Princess Aiko sings songs at all-Gakushuin concert

TOKYO, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito and Princess Masako attend an all-Gakushuin concert event at Tokyo's Mejiro campus on April 15. Their daughter, Princess Aiko, sang songs with her kindergarten friends at the event. (Pool photo)

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Princess Aiko takes part in kindergarten athletic meet

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Aiko rolls a large ball during an athletic meet at Gakushuin Kindergarten in Mejiro, Tokyo, on Oct. 8, watched by her parents, Crown Prince Naruhito (C) and Crown Princess Masako (R). (Pool photo)

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Imperial baby named Prince Hisahito, with hope of long life

TOKYO, Japan - A poster informing people of the name of the newborn imperial baby, Prince Hisahito, is shown at Tokyo's Mejiro district on Sept. 12. The baby is the first son of Prince Akishino and his wife Princess Kiko.

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Princess Kiko gives birth to heir to imperial throne

TOKYO, Japan - People hoist carp streamers and dance outside JR Mejiro Station in Tokyo to celebrate the birth of a baby boy to Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko on Sept. 6.

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Princess Kiko gives birth to heir to imperial throne

TOKYO, Japan - Kindergarten children hoist a carp streamer to celebrate the birth of baby boy to Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko outside JR Mejiro Station in Tokyo on Sept. 6.

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Emperor recalls years as student at Gakushuin

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L at back) and Empress Michiko attend a ceremony commemorating the 125th anniversary of Gakushuin in Mejiro in Tokyo's Toshima Ward on Dec. 13. In his speech, the emperor recalled being an elementary student at Gakushuin in 1940. Gakushuin was founded in 1877 as a peer school for the imperial family and related nobility. It became a private school after World War II.

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Tanaka wonders whether she quit or was fired

TOKYO, Japan - Makiko Tanaka, who was stripped of her post as foreign minister early Jan. 30, speaks outside her house in Tokyo's Mejiro area later in the day. She complained it is unclear whether her job termination is officially considered a dismissal or resignation.

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Mejiro Dober wins 2nd straight Queen Elizabeth Cup

KYOTO, Japan - Second favorite Mejiro Dober (C) darts from the middle of the pack entering the stretch and held off a surging Fusaichi Aredale on Nov. 14 to win her second straight Queen Elizabeth Cup race for fillies and mares. The 5-year-old Mejiro Dober covered the 2,200-meter turf at Kyoto Racecourse in 2 minutes, 13.5 seconds to win by three quarters of a length, giving jockey Yutaka Yoshida and trainer Yokichi Okubo their second Queen Elizabeth Cup each.

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Special Week holds off Mejiro Bright for Tenno-sho

Top favorite Special Week holds off defending champion Mejiro Bright over the final 100 meters May 2 to win the 119th running of the Tenno-sho and take home the richest prize in Japanese horse racing. Special Week, with popular jockey Yutaka Take astride, thundered out of the pack down the stretch to overtake leader Seiun Sky as Mejiro Bright followed in the grueling 3,200-meter test on turf at Kyoto Racecourse.

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Japan Crown Princess Kiko's father Tatsuhiko Kawashima dies at 81

Photo taken in August 1989 shows Tatsuhiko Kawashima and his daughter Kiko walking in Tokyo's Mejiro area before her marriage to Japanese Prince Fumihito. A professor emeritus at Gakushuin University, Kawashima died at 81 on Nov. 4, 2021.

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