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	Masako, Crown Princess of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Masako went to live in Moscow with her parents when she was two years old and attended kindergarten in Moscow, Russia.
		Masako and her family moved to the United States when her father became a guest professor at Harvard University and also vice ambassador to the United States.
		Masako first met the Crown Prince when she was a student at the University of Tokyo in November of 1986 but some say it was before this when her father escorted the members of the royal family as a diplomat.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Masako_Owada (813 words)

	Crown Princess Masako Biography (Royalty) — Infoplease.com
		Masako Owada married Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito on 9 June 1993 and became Crown Princess Masako.
		Owada is Princess Masako's original family name; in Japan her birth name would be written as Owada Masako, with the family name first.
		Crown Princess Masako - Crown Princess Masako Wife of Crown Prince Naruhito, heir to the Japanese throne Born: 12/9/1963...
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/princessmasako.html (295 words)

	Princess Masako Biography - Biography.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Crown Princess, born Masako Owada, on December 9, 1963, in Tokyo, Japan, to Ambassador Hisashi Owada, and Yumiko Owada.
		Masako, however, was not particularly interested in the prospect of a royal life, which she no doubt suspected would severely restrict her independent nature, and the promising career she had worked hard for.
		The once ambitious Masako has been so seemingly stifled that tabloids began speculating that the princess was suffering from depression, stemming from her restricted lifestyle and the intense pressure to bear a son who would be heir to the throne.
	www.biography.com /search/article.jsp?aid=9542219 (498 words)

	Asia Times Online - The trusted news source for information on Japan
		TOKYO - Media reports suggesting that Japan's Crown Princess Masako is suffering from severe depression - linked to heavy pressure on her to produce a son and heir - has revived a debate over the idea of allowing an empress to occupy the 2,000-year-old Chrysanthemum Throne.
		Surveys indicate that more than 70 percent of the public say they would be happy if Masako's daughter were to take over the monarchy since she is the first and still the only child of the crown prince.
		Aiko was born to Masako Owada, a former career diplomat, after more than eight years of married life and some infertility treatment.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/FF02Dh04.html (1020 words)

	Putri Masako Terbentur "Tembok" Tradisi - Senin, 09 Agustus 2004
		Masako kini menerima konseling dan pengobatan, sekalipun beberapa ahli mengatakan upaya pemulihan untuk mengembalikan Masako yang penuh senyum itu akan sulit apabila tetap dilakukan di dalam lingkup istana yang penuh dengan protokoler dan tradisi yang sangat ketat.
		Masako yang penuh energi, diplomat, dan putri seorang diplomat yang selalu melalang buana kini memasuki lingkup istana yang lebih banyak dengan "tidak" untuk ini dan itu.
		Putri Masako jelas menghendaki frekuensi perjalanan ke luar negeri.
	www.kompas.com /kompas-cetak/0408/09/sorotan/1193744.htm (1318 words)

	Japan's Crown Princess Masako (AP story, Dec. 8, 1996) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Masako did not elaborate on what sort of ``hardship'' she has suffered, but she did display annoyance at the reports.
		Foreign media have speculated that the palace is putting a lid on Masako's activities, partly due to traditional Japanese notions about the duties of a wife -- the usual word for ``wife'' literally means ``in the house'' -- and partly from fear that Masako might outshine the less-glamorous prince.
		Masako is not the first crown princess to find it difficult to adapt to the imperial family.
	vikingphoenix.com /public/JapanIncorporated/postwar/masako-1.htm (545 words)

	NBC: No fairy tale for Japan’s princess - World News - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		For Masako Owada, the Japanese crown princess, the pressure may have proved to be too much to take.
		She agreed to the marriage after assurances from the crown prince that he would protect her and with the notion that she would be able to pursue her wishes of incorporating statecraft into her new role as a member of the imperial family.
		During a press conference in 2002, Masako herself admitted it took quite a bit of effort on her part to adjust to the reality that prevented her from visiting foreign countries.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5074926 (1013 words)

	Masako Owada - Wikipedia
		Masako Owada werd geboren op 9 december 1963 in Tokio (Japan).
		Voor de bruiloft moest Masako een vruchtbaarheidstest ondergaan om te zien of ze wel in staat was om een mannelijke troonopvolger te baren.
		Masako kreeg 3 miskramen, de laatste op nieuwjaarsdag 1999.
	nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Masako_Owada (657 words)

	JPRI Working Paper No. 66
		Over the teacups, Naruhito was introduced to Masako Owada, then twenty-two, eldest daughter of Hisashi Owada, Director-General of the Treaty Division of the Foreign Ministry, a high-powered Japanese bureaucrat (who, it was later rumored, may have had a hand in arranging the meeting).
		Masako was about to spend two years at Oxford acquiring an upper-class British polish (she already had a degree in economics from Harvard).
		Masako dined at the palace with Naruhito's family, and was treated to a musical evening with the Emperor playing the cello, the Empress on the harpsichord, and their children playing viola and violins.
	www.jpri.org /publications/workingpapers/wp66.html (4686 words)

	The Royalist - The Three Words That Bring Hope For Princess Masako
		Masako's own mother-in-law, the Empress, has also suffered health problems, the most publicised of these being when she reportedly lost the power of speech, a situation which was blamed on the appearance of rare media criticism.
		As happened with Diana, Crown Princess Masako has been the victime of an often vicious whispering campaign, with those close to her husband's Court regularly claiming she was temperemental and even unstable.
		The 'disappearance' of Masako from public view precipitated much gossip and innuendo and it was clear, even to famously tight-lipped royal officials, that this couldn't continue without an explanation being offered to both media and public alike.
	www.theroyalist.net /content/view/389/2 (1005 words)

	CP Naruhito & CP Masako: Photo Thread 1 - Page 9 - The Royal Forums
		At andreg; is Hisashi Owada, father of the crown princess and bride and (4thR) is Michiko Ikeda, mother of bridegroom.
		Masako was included in the third grader in a private Den-enchofu Futaba school elementary school of Setagaya-ku, Tokyo in 1972.
		Masako moved to Boston, the United States, for transfer of her father in July of this year.
	www.theroyalforums.com /forums/f84/cp-naruhito-cp-masako-photo-thread-1-a-742-9.html (2575 words)

	Royal Blue Forums - New Book on Princess Masako (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A thoroughly modern woman in collision with an ancient and unreformed system, Masako is a brilliant woman who sacrificed her career to marry a love-struck royal, Crown Prince Naruhito.
		Japan's royal dynasty, the world's oldest with a 2600-year history faces an uncertain future if Masako and her Crown Prince Naruhito cannot produce a male child - but, after thirteen years of marriage, both are in their forties and have only a daughter, little Aiko, reportedly born with the help of IVF.
		Masako's story is an outrage, it really is. Leaving aside the wealth and privilege issue, the way she has been treated is disgusting.
	forums.rbhq.net /printthread.php?t=7372 (1188 words)

	Untitled Document
		Japan erupted in joy Monday after the government announced that Princess Masako, wife of the crown prince, "is showing signs of pregnancy." After years of bad economic and political news, word of a possible heir was a cause for celebration.
		Masako canceled a three-day trip to Kyoto on April 4 with the official excuse that she had a cold.
		When Masako finally agreed to the marriage in late 1992, she was hailed as a member of a new generation who might help change the institution.
	home1.gte.net /eskandar/japanroyals2.html (873 words)

	Crown Princess Masako
		Born Masako Owada, the daughter of a diplomat, Crown Princess Masako is the second commoner into the Japanese imperial household.
		Due to her father's postings, Masako attended kindergarten in Moscow, elementary school in New York and Tokyo, and secondary school in Tokyo and Boston.
		Due to her background as a 'career woman', still a rare occurence in Japan, there were high expectations for Masako modernizing the role of Crown Princess.
	ikjeld.com /files/biographies/princess_masako.html (401 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Princess trapped by palace guard
		Many blame her ill health on the pressure on her to produce a male heir to the Japanese throne, which is in the midst of a succession crisis.
		Princess Masako's diagnosis with Adjustment Disorder, which is linked with symptoms of depression or anxiety, may also be a result of her abrupt transition of lifestyle.
		The daughter of a senior diplomat, and the granddaughter of a businessman, Masako Owada was born in Tokyo on 9 December 1963.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/3939179.stm (657 words)

	The Throne at BFW Local 734
		She was born Masako Owada, the eldest daughter of Hisashi Owada, a senior diplomat.
		Masako and her family moved to the United States when her father became a guest professor at Harvard University.
		Princess Masako holds a BA (magna cum laude) in Economics from Harvard University and did graduate work in International Relations at Balliol College, Oxford University.
	www.bfw734.com /?p=141 (369 words)

	PRINCESS MASAKO
		When career diplomat Masako Owada finally agreed to marry Crown Prince Naruhito, the Japanese public was thrilled.
		(Masako has to receive permission to travel and even to see her family.) These strains were exacerbated by fertility problems, and when the princess finally did give birth, she failed to produce an heir to the throne; the baby was a girl.
		The stress culminated in 2004 with Masako's withdrawal from public life to nurse a debilitating depression.
	www.kirkusreviews.com /kirkusreviews/headlines/nonfiction_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003287562 (359 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Harvard Grad, Japanese Prince Engaged to Marry in May or June (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Owada is the daughter of Japan's top diplomat, Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Hisashi Owada.
		Owada fails in the first two of thesestipulations; her status on the last is unclear.
		Owada has stayed in her family's home in Tokyosince the Japanese press got word of theengagement two days ago.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=242172 (366 words)

	Women, in their unhappy marriages
		And so it was that Masako Owada, a potent symbol of future diplomatic elegance for her country, ended up being Princess Masako in the Japanese imperial household.
		Masako Owada should not have accepted the royal offer of marriage, but then again, it would have been in very poor taste to tell Naruhito that she could not be his spouse.
		Anyone who knew Masako Owada in her diplomatic days is aware today of how much of a wreck she has turned into.
	www.dhakacourier.net /issue51/column/doc6.htm (1030 words)

	Abbeys Bookshop - Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne
		Ben Hills' Princess Masako steals a fascinating look behind the Chrysanthemum Curtain' into the arcane world of the Japanese royal family.This dramatic portrayal of a modern-day oriental fairytale turned on its head details how Masako Owada struggles with the daily pressures of life in Japan's imperial court.
		In marrying Crown Prince Naruhito of Japan, Masako Owada lost her career, her privacy and her dignity.
		Now in her 40s, she is unlikely to have a male heir, so the direct line of male succession in Japan will be broken for the first time in history.
	www.abbeys.com.au /items.asp?productcode=1741660149 (559 words)

	Ben Hills : Books - Princess Masako
		Inevitably, the fairy-story turns to tragedy when Masako Owada is unable to adjust to the pressures of living in Japan's ancient imperial court.
		It includes intimate portraits of Masako and Naruhito from childhood to marriage and beyond; a look behind the 'Chrysanthemum Curtain' to the arcane world of the Japanese royal family, where vestal virgins still preside at Shinto rites and the position of royal stool inspector was only recently abolished.
		Princess Masako asks and answers many questions which can never be raised in Japan because of the reverence in which the Emperor and his family are held.
	www.benhills.com /books/PrincessMasako/index.html (564 words)

	Editorial
		In the kind of surroundings in which the Japanese royal household has regularly operated, it was only natural that Masako Owada, as she used to be known before her marriage into royalty, would feel the constraints that come with stuffy formality.
		As a young diplomat, Masako Owada had taken part in some very intense negotiations on behalf of her government (of course in a team) with governments in the West.
		Masako Owada has become sadder in her world of royal isolation.
	www.newagebd.com /2005/feb/25/edit.html (2096 words)

	Japan Thrilled at News of Possibly Pregnant Princess (washingtonpost.com)
		When the news leaked that Princess Masako might be pregnant, and might finally start a new generation to inherit the emperor's throne, the usual harried expressions on Tokyo faces turned to beaming joy.
		For six years now, Japanese have kept an awkward silence about the failure of Masako, a Harvard-educated diplomat, to produce an offspring since her marriage in 1993 to Crown Prince Naruhito.
		Naruhito was seen as a pleasant but uninspiring suitor, so there was some clucking about why Masako Owada, a rising star in the Foreign Service, agreed to marry him in 1993.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/pmextra/dec99/10/emperor.htm (674 words)

	Japan’s monarchy now wrestles with feelings - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Princess Masako’s illness puts the spotlight on personal happiness, indicating a shift in Japan’s preoccupation with the survival of the Chrysanthemum Throne.
		When the Imperial Household Agency announced recently that Princess Masako was receiving therapy for depression and anxiety, it was the first time in the long, long history of Japan's monarchy that there was royal recognition of something most take for granted: personal happiness.
		The Imperial Household Agency, which had ignored Masako’s depression, could no longer do so after the prince’s comments in May. The agency said it was considering changing her official duties, thus acknowledging her pain.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/aug222004/fp4.asp (988 words)

	Crown Prince Naruhito of Japan & Masako Owada 1993 - The Royal Forums
		Masako leaving her parents' house in order to get to the palace and to get married.
		He presented Masako with five rolls of silk material for Western dresses, six bottles of sake, and two fresh sea bream, one male and one female.
		Masako and her parents visit the Imperial Palace on January 19 after the Imperial Household Council had given the marriage its official approval.
	www.theroyalforums.com /forums/f31/crown-prince-naruhito-japan-masako-owada-1993-a-5576.html (1308 words)

	THE IPINIONS JOURNAL: A Royal Disappointment: Masako Owada – the (would-be) Princess Diana of Japan...
		When Masako Owada of Japan entered public consciousness at 30, she seemed much less a sacrificial lamb than Diana Spencer did upon her debut at 19.
		Therefore, when Masako married His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince Naruhito on 9 June 1993, I was dismayed but admittedly interested in observing how this liberated, educated and sophisticated woman would adapt to the confining and provincial protocols of royal life.
		The lasting image of Princess Masako (again emulating Princess Diana in looking forlorn of hope) as she was being driven last December from a Japanese sanatorium where she underwent treatment for her “adjustment disorder”...
	theipinionsjournal.com /2005/09/royal-disappointment-masako-owada.html (1178 words)

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