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Entries tagged with 'Japan'
Posted Dec. 5, 2007,
Future Emperor: Prince Hisahito
By Mickey Boardman
Here is a nice family shot of little Prince Hisahito who will one day be Emperor of Japan. He's with his family celebrating the 42nd birthday of his father Prince Akishino, brother of the current Crown Prince Naruhito. With the Prince are his wife Princess Kiko and their two daughters 16-year-old Mako and 12-year-old Kako.
After the jump is a super cute shot of six-year-old Princess Aiko, the only child of Crown Prince Naruhito and his wife Masako. You MMBlog readers know that MM is very sad that Aiko will not be Empress because of the Salic Law in Japan which forbids females from inheriting the throne. There was talk of changing the archaic law when it looked like there would be no male heirs in the current generation and then Princess Kiko had little Hisahito.
Posted Oct. 11, 2007,
Ken Burns' The War on PBS (Reality Check Two Three)
By Ann Magnuson
Sorry to interrupt our little campfest with a brutal dose of reality but... God. Words completely fail me in trying describe the experience of watching the Ken Burns' PBS series on WWII called simply The War. You could say War is Hell but Hell has nothing on this War. (Or any war.) I rarely turn on the TV anymore but happened upon the last episodes (and now, thankfully, the second airing ) of this series when I switched on the set to watch the latest finds from the Hollywood vault. I've ignored all the escapist DVDs that have piled up ever since because I can't stop watching The War.