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Sunday June 18, 12:26 PMCrown prince attends father's day event at daughter's kindergarten(Kyodo) _ Crown Prince Naruhito was among participants who took part Sunday in a father's day event at the Gakushuin Kindergarten in Tokyo, in which fathers were invited to watch their children at work in class.Princess Aiko, who entered the kindergarten in April, played with blocks and did origami paper-folding with other children as their fathers looked on, and went to her father to show him an origami she made, according to the Imperial Household Agency. The classroom visit was not open to the media. The 4-year-old princess is the only child of Crown Prince Naruhito, 46, and Crown Princess Masako, 42. The young princess has attracted public attention as she could become Japan's first female monarch since the 18th century. No male heir has been born to the imperial family since 1965 and the 1947 Imperial House Law states that only male members of the imperial family who have emperors on their father's side can reign. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi gave up submitting during this year's ordinary Diet session, which began in January and ends Sunday, a bill to revise the law to allow females to take the throne, after learning in February that Princess Kiko, the wife of Emperor Akihito's second son Prince Akishino, was pregnant. |
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