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Originally posted by Josefine@Sep 20th, 2003 - 10:26 am
I would love to hear a bit about Princess Masako
some history about her
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Miss Masako Owada was born as Mr. Hisashi and Mrs. Yumiko Owada's eldest daughter in Tokyo on December 9, 1963. Her father was working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Miss Masako Owada with her mother at her home
Masako moved to Moscow, the Soviet Union for transfer of her father in 1965. She went to the kindergarten in Moscow from 2 years-old time. She began skiing and the skate from these days. It was in 1968 and she moved to New York, the United States for transfer of her father, and She went to the elementary school in New York.
Masako in Moscow
She went back to Japan for transfer of a father in 1971, and She was admitted in the Tokyo Shinjuku ward Tomihisa elementary school. Masako was included in the third grader in a private Den-enchofu Futaba school elementary school of Setagaya-ku, Tokyo in 1972. This school is known as a celebrated school in Japan. She was taught tennis from the time of the sixth grader in an elementary school at the tennis club near her school. She graduated from the elementary school in 1976. She wrote it to the column of the future dream of graduation collection of works as the "veterinarian."
Masako entered the private Den-enchofu Futaba school junior high school in 1976. She made the softball part together with the friend at the time of the second-year student in a junior high school. She acted as the captain. Her nickname was "OWA." , Since her family name was "Owada". She was the great fan of professional baseball. Every day, she strove for practice of a softball. She won the victory in the Setagaya-ku softball convention at the time of the third-year student in a junior high school.
Masako entered the private Den-enchofu Futaba school high school in April, 1979. Masako moved to Boston, the United States, for transfer of her father in July of this year. She was admitted in the public high school of in Boston. She belonged to the softball part also at the high school in Boston.
Her family moved to the Soviet Union in July, 1981 for transfer of her father. She entered the Harvard University department of economics in September of this year. She stayed at Germany at a first grader's summer vacation, and studied German, and She stayed at France at a second grader's summer vacation, and studied French. Masako graduated from Harvard University in June, 1985. She won the "Magnum Qum RAUDE" prize sent to a results excellent person. And she went back to Japan.
She did university graduate entrance in the University of Tokyo law department in April, 1986. She passed the diplomat examination in October of this year. She received the interview of a newspaper publishing company as a diplomat of two generation of parents and children at this time. She was that there is also a risk which cannot get married throughout life determined when she passed a diplomat examination. After success, She thought that she had better know the culture of the date book which went to the foreign country in the future, And she began to learn the tea ceremony.
She met the Crown Prince for the first time in October, 1986 in the tea party which greeted Princess Elena of Spain and was held in Crown Prince's Palace.
Miss Masako Owada who receives an interview of a newspaper publishing company after passing a diplomat examination
