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Japan gets a new emperor as Naruhito vows to pursue peace Japan’s Emperor Completes Enthronement In Ancient Ceremony ‘More like us’: Japan’s imperial couple put relaxed face on the monarchy
They are the first imperial couple with university degrees, to speak several languages and to have years of experience of living abroad — when the emperor even did his own laundry.
Emperor Naruhito, 59, the eldest of three children, is the first to be cared for by his mother instead of being raised by wet nurses and tutors. His parents made efforts to give him an ordinary childhood, including sending him to school with a packed lunch.
A student of water transport, he graduated from Gakushuin University and then spent two years at Oxford University, which he has described as some of the best years of his life. He later defied palace officials to marry diplomat Masako Owada, now 55, who was largely raised abroad, after she caught his eye at a concert.
The two have one daughter, 17-year-old Princess Aiko, who as a woman cannot ascend to the throne.
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