(born ; 11 September 1966), is married to

Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan is the heir presumptive to the Emperor of Japan, Japanese throne. He is the younger brother of Emperor Naruhito, and the younger son of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko. Since his marriage in June 1990, he has had the title and has headed t ...

. Her husband is the younger brother and

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of Emperor

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and the second son of Emperor Emeritus

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and Empress Emerita Michiko. Kiko earned a PhD in

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from

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. Her marriage to Fumihito in 1990 furthered the trend of Japanese imperial males marrying middle class commoners of academic prominence in earlier and current generations. The couple has three children:

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, Kako, and Hisahito. Preceding Fumihito and Kiko's investiture as Crown Prince and Princess, the ongoing

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had resulted in some politicians holding a favorable view on rescinding

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imposed by World War II allies on the

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. However, once Kiko and Fumihito had their son Hisahito in September 2006 he became next in the line of succession following his father. Hisahito's cousin and Emperor Naruhito's only child,

Princess Aiko is a member of the Imperial House of Japan. She is the only child of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako of Japan. Following her birth, the ongoing Japanese imperial succession debate had resulted in some politicians holding a favorable ...

, remains at present legally ineligible to inherit the throne, while debate about the possibility of having future

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continues. As active working members of the imperial family, Kiko and Fumihito's schedule includes attending

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s, and organizational and global event meetings. The couple has particularly represented the Japanese imperial house in ceremonies involving

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he head of state He or HE may refer to: Language * He (letter), the fifth letter of the Semitic abjads * He (pronoun), a pronoun in Modern English * He (kana), one of the Japanese kana (へ in hiragana and ヘ in katakana) * Ge (Cyrillic), a Cyrillic letter cal ...

being an embodiment of the State itself or representative of its international persona." The name given to the office of head of sta ...

and VIPs abroad. Kiko's imperial patronages cluster around medical, science and children's causes.

Early life

Kiko was born at Shizuoka Saiseikai General Hospital in Suruga-ku, Shizuoka, Japan. She is the eldest daughter of Tatsuhiko Kawashima (1940–2021) and his wife, Kazuyo Sugimoto (born 1942). The family moved to

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in 1967 while her father attended the

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. He earned a doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania in 1971 in regional science and later taught there. Kiko attended elementary and high school in

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, when her father became the chief researcher at the

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(IIASA) in

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, Austria, where he studied spatial science and

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activities. The future princess became fluent in English and

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. In 1972, they moved back to Japan, where her father taught economics at

Gakushuin University is a private university in Mejiro, Toshima, Tokyo. The Gakushūin (or "Peers School") was established during the Meiji period to educate the children of the Japanese nobility, but back then the institution had only the primary and secondary ...

in Tokyo."Japanese Prince Plans To Marry A Commoner"
''

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''. 13 September 1989. She lived with her parents and younger brother in a small on-campus apartment in Tokyo. She graduated from the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Letters of

with a

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degree in

Psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feel ...

in 1989 and received a

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degree in

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from the

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of Gakushuin University in 1995. She received a

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degree in

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from

. She participated in the Ship for Southeast Asian and Japanese Youth Program (SSEAYP) in 1987 and continues to be a supporter of the program.

Marriage

Prince Fumihito first proposed marriage to Kiko Kawashima on 26 June 1986 while they were both undergraduates at Gakushuin. Three years later, the

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announced the engagement on 12 September 1989 and the engagement ceremony was held on 12 January 1990. No marriage date would be set until the official one-year mourning period ended for Fumihito's grandfather, Emperor

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, who had died in January 1989. The wedding took place at an exclusive shrine at the

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on 29 June 1990. The Imperial Household Council had previously granted the prince permission to establish a new branch of the Imperial Family and the Emperor granted him the title ''Akishino-no-miya'' (Prince Akishino) on his wedding day. Upon marriage, his bride became ''Her Imperial Highness The Princess Akishino,'' known informally as ''Princess Kiko''. As tradition dictates, upon her entry into the imperial family and like other members, she received a personal

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(): the blossom of the bristle-pointed beachhead iris '' Iris setosa'' () which blooms in intense shades of dark lavender to blue. The engagement and marriage of Prince Akishino to the former Kiko Kawashima broke precedent in several respects. At the time, the groom was still a graduate student at Gakushuin and he would be married before his older brother, Crown Prince Naruhito. Officials at the

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were opposed to the marriage, and so was Prince Akishino's paternal grandmother Empress Dowager Nagako. As the second woman from a middle-class and academician background to marry into the imperial family after her mother-in-law

Empress Michiko is a member of the Imperial House of Japan. She was Empress of Japan as the wife of Akihito, the 125th Emperor of Japan reigning from 7 January 1989 to 30 April 2019. Michiko married Crown Prince Akihito and became Crown Princess of Japan i ...

, she was given the nickname "the apartment princess" by the media. Although Empress Michiko was also born a commoner, she was from a very wealthy family; her father was the president of a large flour-milling company. The Princess had said repeatedly that she wanted to finish her master's degree if circumstances permitted. She completed her post-graduate studies in psychology between her official duties and received her master's degree in psychology in 1995. She is known for her continuing interest in

deaf culture Deaf culture is the set of social beliefs, behaviors, art, literary traditions, history, values, and shared institutions of communities that are influenced by deafness and which use sign languages as the main means of communication. When used as ...

and the Deaf in Japan. She learned

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and is a skilled

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. She attends the "Sign Language Speech Contest for High School Students" held every August, and "Praising Mothers Raising Children with Hearing Impairments" every December. In October 2008, she participated in the "38th National Deaf Women's Conference." She also signs in informal Deaf gatherings. In March 2013, Kiko was granted a

degree in

at the Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences,

, for her dissertation entitled "Knowledge, perceptions, beliefs and behaviors related to

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: A study based on questionnaire surveys with seminar participants of the National Federation of Community Women's Organizations for TB Control and female college students."

Children

Prince Fumihito of Akishino and his family

Since 1997, Prince Fumihito and Princess Kiko and their children have maintained a principal residence on the grounds of the Akasaka Estate in Motoakasaka,

Minato, Tokyo is a Special wards of Tokyo, special ward of Tokyo, Japan. It is also called Minato City in English. Minato was formed in 1947 as a merger of Akasaka, Tokyo, Akasaka, Azabu and Shiba, Tokyo, Shiba wards following Tokyo City's Local Autonomy Ac ...

. The couple have three children (two daughters and one son): * ; formerly ; following her civil marriage to lawyer Kei Komuro on 26 October 2021, Mako gave up her imperial title and left the Imperial Family as required by 1947 Imperial Household Law. * *

Official duties

The Prince and Princess are called upon to meet with important overseas visitors to improve

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. The Princess was chosen as one of the

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for 2007, drawn from a poll of 4000 candidates. The Prince and Princess have made numerous official visits to foreign countries. In June 2002, they became the first members of the Imperial Family to visit

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, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations. In October 2002, they visited the

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to attend the funeral of

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. In September 2003, the Prince and Princess made goodwill visits to

Fiji Fiji, officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands—of which about ...

Tonga Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania. The country has 171 islands, of which 45 are inhabited. Its total surface area is about , scattered over in the southern Pacific Ocean. accordin ...

and

Samoa Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa and known until 1997 as Western Samoa, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania, in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu), two smaller, inhabited ...

, again, the first time ever members of the Imperial Family had visited these countries. In March 2004, the Prince and Princess returned to the Netherlands for the funeral of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands. In January 2005, they visited

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to attend the funeral of Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte. From October to November 2006, they visited

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to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Japanese emigration to that country. In January 2008, they visited

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...

for a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and the Republic of Indonesia. They visited

Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

, and

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in May 2009 on the occasion of "Japan-Danube Friendship Year 2009" and the

in August 2009 for the commemorative event of the 400th anniversary of the trade relations between Japan and the Netherlands. They have visited

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Uganda Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the ...

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, the

Slovakia Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's m ...

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Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

, and

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. From June to July 2014, Prince Fumihito and Princess Kiko visited

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and

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. In June–July 2019, the couple carried out the first official overseas visit by the imperial family following the accession of Emperor Naruhito. They visited Poland and Finland to participate in the celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relationship between Japan and the two countries. In August 2019, the couple and their son, Hisahito, arrived in

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for a visit. In 2023 they were guests at the

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of King

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and

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Health

While pregnant with her third child, Kiko was diagnosed with

placenta praevia Placenta praevia or placenta previa is when the placenta attaches inside the uterus but in a position near or over the cervical opening. Symptoms include vaginal bleeding in the second half of pregnancy. The bleeding is bright red and tends not ...

. The princess also had

carpal tunnel syndrome Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a nerve compression syndrome associated with the collected signs and symptoms of Pathophysiology of nerve entrapment#Compression, compression of the median nerve at the carpal tunnel in the wrist. Carpal tunn ...

osteoporosis aggravated by child-nursing, a symptom common among middle-aged women, her doctor revealed on 14 December 2007. In late 2023 it was reported that Kiko was suffering from a gastrointestinal illness which prevented her from eating "normal meals" though an

endoscopy An endoscopy is a procedure used in medicine to look inside the body. The endoscopy procedure uses an endoscope to examine the interior of a hollow organ or cavity of the body. Unlike many other medical imaging techniques, endoscopes are insert ...

performed on her in January 2024 found no abnormalities.

Honours

National

* : **

Grand Cordon (Paulownia) of the

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** Dame of the Decoration of the Red Cross ** Recipient of the Red Cross Medal

Foreign

* : **

Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (11 October 2016) * : ** NED Kroonorde A1 BAR

Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (24 October 2014) * : ** PER Order of the Sun of Peru - Grand Cross BAR

Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun (27 January 2014) * : ** ESP Isabella Catholic Order GC

Dame Grand Cross of the

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(8 November 2008)

Honorary positions

* Reserve Member of the Imperial House Council * Patroness of the Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association * President of the Imperial Gift Foundation Boshi-Aiiku-kai * Honorary Patroness of the Society for the Protection of the Cultural Heritage of Daishoji Imperial Convent * Honorary Vice-president of the

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* Honorary Research Fellow of the

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* Honorary Research Fellow of the Ochanomizu University Institute for Education and Human Development

References

External links

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Marriage

Children

Official duties

Health

Honours

National

Foreign

Honorary positions

See also

References

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