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Princess Sayako will marry gov't offical
TOKYO (AFP) - Princess Sayako, the only daughter of Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, will marry a 39-year-old official working with Tokyo's metropolitan government, press reports said.
The emperor and empress have already approved the marriage between the 35-year-old princess and Yoshiki Kuroda and a wedding is set for early 2005, the Jiji and Kyodo news agencies, the Japan Broadcasting Corp. and the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported.
The Imperial Household Agency would brief media about the reports, a spokesman for the agency said.
Sayako, 35, who is also known as Princess Nori, will become a commoner upon her marriage according to imperial household law. She has two brothers, Crown Prince Naruhito, 44, and Prince Akishino, 38.
Kuroda was one of Prince Akishino's classmates at Tokyo's Gakushuin University, a private institute and the alma mater for members of the imperial family, including Princess Sayako.
The news was a welcome change for Japan which has recently been hit by a series of earthquakes and typhoons as well as diplomatic rows including the intrusion of a suspected Chinese nuclear submarine into its waters.
An announcement of the engagement, originally planned for this month, was postponed out of consideration for victims of the natural disasters, the reports said.
Princess Sayako, a Gakushuin graduate with a bachelor's degree in Japanese language and literature, works at an institute for ornithology in Chiba, east of Tokyo, where she has been involved in kingfisher research.
TOKYO (AFP) - Princess Sayako, the only daughter of Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, will marry a 39-year-old official working with Tokyo's metropolitan government, press reports said.
The emperor and empress have already approved the marriage between the 35-year-old princess and Yoshiki Kuroda and a wedding is set for early 2005, the Jiji and Kyodo news agencies, the Japan Broadcasting Corp. and the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported.
The Imperial Household Agency would brief media about the reports, a spokesman for the agency said.
Sayako, 35, who is also known as Princess Nori, will become a commoner upon her marriage according to imperial household law. She has two brothers, Crown Prince Naruhito, 44, and Prince Akishino, 38.
Kuroda was one of Prince Akishino's classmates at Tokyo's Gakushuin University, a private institute and the alma mater for members of the imperial family, including Princess Sayako.
The news was a welcome change for Japan which has recently been hit by a series of earthquakes and typhoons as well as diplomatic rows including the intrusion of a suspected Chinese nuclear submarine into its waters.
An announcement of the engagement, originally planned for this month, was postponed out of consideration for victims of the natural disasters, the reports said.
Princess Sayako, a Gakushuin graduate with a bachelor's degree in Japanese language and literature, works at an institute for ornithology in Chiba, east of Tokyo, where she has been involved in kingfisher research.