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Princess Masako

The tragic story of Japan's Crown Princess. It's the fantasy of many young women-marry a handsome prince, move into a luxurious palace, and live happily ever after. But that's not how it turned out for Masako Owada. A thoroughly modern woman in collision with an ancient system, Masako is the brilliant Harvard- and Oxford-educated woman who, in 1993, sacrificed her career as a diplomat to marry Crown Prince Naruhito. Stealing a fascinating look behind the "Chrysanthemum Curtain" into the arcane world of the Japanese royal family, Princess Masako details how the princess is subjected to the endless superstitious rites of the Royal Household Agency in the hope that she will produce a male heir and prevent the world's oldest royal dynasty from dying out. Some thought the princess would be a breath of fresh air in the musty corridors of this twenty-six-hundred-year-old monarchy, but thirteen years later, now at age forty-two, the princess is a tragic figure whose struggles with depression have made international headlines. Ben Hills's fascinating portrait of Masako and the Chrysanthemum Throne draws on research in Tokyo and rural Japan, Oxford, and Harvard and from more than sixty interviews with Japanese, American, English, and Australian sources-Masako's and Naruhito's friends, teachers, and former colleagues-many of whom have never spoken publicly before, shedding light on the royal family's darkest secrets, secrets that can never be openly discussed in Japan because of the reverence in which the Emperor and his family are held. And it poses some questions that few in Japan would dare to ask-questions about the role of the emperor, the place of women, attitudes toward mental health and IVF, and the power of the bureaucracy. But most of all, this is a story about a love affair that went tragically wrong.

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Title of ebook: Princess Masako
ISBN: 9781429589956
parent-ISBN: 9781585425686
Publisher: Tarcher
Internet download file size: 1872 kb
Pages: 336
Published: 12-2006
Released online for download: 12-28-2006
Author of eBook: Hills, Ben

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