No that is not what I said. I said that the House Chamberlain for the Emperor and the House Chamberlain for the Crown Prince handle their scheduling. I never said anything about Prince Akishino. He is not the heir. The rules are different for him. There is a very long held and established protocol at the palace for the Emperor and the Crown Prince. Their lives are scheduled accordingly to this protocol. From his infancy Naruhito has been held separately from his siblings. It is the way of things. So yes, I BELIEVE IT.
The rules are different in Japan then anything we know/take for granted here in the west.That is one thing.
The almighty,and gawd help it,omnipotent Kunaicho absolutely directs every second of the day and each and every member of the Imperial Family.Would anyone try to pull off what they pull off,we had them yanked and spanked all over the country,I tell you that.I have a name for them,but it would be considered bad language to some.
The Emperor should stop complaining,if he ever actually did and this is not some other Kunaicho bogus they are well known for if they do not get it their way too,his dear Empress Michiko has suffered so enormous under the dictatorship of that darned Kunaicho that she had several nervous breakdowns and also several times lost the ability to speak and to this day suffers stress related physical problems.
Thanks to the horrendous and absolutely inhuman conduct by the Kunaicho.
All the Emperor has been able to change thusfar is that the Imperial car will stop for a traffic light,and he has send the Imperial Poop researcher into an early retirement,honestly,that function existed untill Akihito became Emperor,I'm not making it up.
When McArthur claimed victory over Japan and left the Emperor in place,he forgot to clean up the most backward Japanese institution,the Kunaicho.
The Crown Princely Couple,well educated intellectuals that they are,might just be more then fet up with the constant mingling and nagging by those arrogant little creepy crawlies,(that's not name-calling is it?),and choose to do as they please as much as they possibly can,which isn't all that much to us,but a world of difference to them.A sort of protest against this way outdated and inhuman treatment by that institution.
Meanwhile,the Japanese can say what they like,I say they behave like lame cattle by letting this situation continue and not rise against it.There should be one with a big broom to totally clean-up that Court mess once and for all,and introduce freedom to the Imperial Family,
they wouldn't know what hit them probably,those poor poor people.
Akeshino and that wife of his are the Kunaicho's darlings,no doubt,they even had the sex of their latest offspring planned by the Kunaicho,
and now are the proud parents of the Heir Presumptive after Naruhito,and they let that be known,always thought that couple to be arrogant/backward,and I am not blind in that department.
To learn more on this compelling story/day to day way of live,may I suggest the new book by US Harvard educated author John Burnham Schwartz "The Commoner",as Caroline Mathilda suggested too earlyer in this thread. .
Prohibited in Japan,even tho the author changed the names of Michiko and Masako in Haruko and Keiko.The book is a bestseller among Japanese visitors to the US at present who softly/discretely ask for the book.
Oh,that Kunaicho gets me going allright.Them and their whale hunting for so called scientific reasons...yeah,bogus too,are what I absolutely "dislike" on that country.At all.But I think I made that clear.
I honestly don't understand what the purpose of the IHA is besides being a pain in the royal behinds! Does the CP have the power to change the ways of the IHA once he becomes Emperor? Because it sounds like the servants (IHA) are running the palace and the royals are held hostage.
