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Prince Hisahito celebrates his 2nd birthday

Prince Hisahito, 3rd in line to the Japanese throne, turns 2 today. Kyodo News reported some details on how he’s been:

Lately, the prince walks lively and spends more time playing outdoors than taking a nap, according to the agency. He is gradually learning to speak, it said.

Prince Hisahito is particularly interested in animals and other creatures, and feeds beetles and other inspects he brought from the imperial resort home in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, in August.

He also harvested eggplant and okra in the garden with his mother, according to the agency.

FTV reported on the birthday with some footage of Prince Hisahito displaying a dragonfly he caught in Tochigi:

According to the report, Hisahito has been learning many new words such as “horse,” “frog,” and the name of their dog. He also enjoys arranging building blocks with his sisters.

A photo gallery of Hisahito pictures can be found on the Sankei Shinbun site.

23 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - September 6, 2008 at 9:42 am

Categories: Celebrity News Tags: hisahito

weirdo

I love okra in my misoshiru.
James

His sisters are pretty cute
Bad Wolf

Kind of a waste of taxpayers’ money, the royal family is.

Random Filipino

Attitudes regarding royal families differ all throughout the world, so I’m not sure if I’d agree with you.

Westerners (or at least the British) don’t seem to revere the British Royal Family that much, some calling for its abolition. But on the flip side, you have the Thais who deeply revere their King. Despite the limited real powers of their constitutional monarch, the King of Thailand still wields immense influence and authority, being able to ultimately determine the course of his country. I’m not sure about the Japanese, so I wouldn’t know if they’d agree that supporting the Chrysanthemum throne is a waste of taxpayer’s money. Regardless, I’m neither British, Thai, Japanese, nor does our country have a Royal Family, so I can’t speak based on experience.

The way I see it, having a royal family is definitely a great cultural asset for a nation. However, I’m not one to say if the amount of taxpayer’s money begin spent on them is justified. You should ask their subjects that question.

Joe

I’m british and I know nobody who likes the royale family, i really don’t know who those saddo’s are that camp outside to see a car go past and cried when diana died, I didn’t really care that much that diana died, people die all the time. Also a lot of people here complain about how much money the royal family waste, they’re not very respected.
ダビ

I’m Swedish and I’d like to see our monarchy abolished at once – both as a matter of principle and because the king is a muppet.
Rob

“But on the flip side, you have the Thais who deeply revere their King.”

Yeah, but do they actually revere their king, or are they just doing it because they’ll get a prolonged jail sentence if they don’t? Lèse majesté is a pretty serious offense over there.

Random Filipino

Based on what I’ve read so far, I think majority of the Thai people genuinely revere their king, and they’re (currently) comfortable with the lese majeste laws in place. Most Thais apparently were shocked and outraged when several youtube videos disrespecting their King were put up. Below are some articles about him.

BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7128935.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6532137.stm

Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article1502337.ece

University of London
http://newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk/npcu-blog/2007/4/5/youtube-user-removes-clip-mocking-thai-king.html
http://www.japanprobe.com James

The Economist did a report last month about Thailand’s lese majeste laws:
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11920909&fsrc=rss

aruma

The boy is adorable! May he grow to be a great leader!

jb

the royal family are little more than figureheads. they have no power to lead whatsoever. he has a fairly meaningless life of hand-shaking to look forward to
Bad Wolf

No, he has a totally meaningless life to look forward to. Well, perhaps if things get exciting, he can research the pooping habits of racoons in the royal gardens.

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http://randomurl.com LondonGaijin

Playing with Dragonfiles in public, playing on his new Playstation3 at home.

Happy birthday little man!
Lucy

He is cute! ^_^ happy birthday! ^_^
hadji

Doesn’t look so inbred but I’m sure his sheltered existence will give him the mental problems genetics somehow didn’t.
David Kim

regarding the royal family – anachronistic to be sure. still, what a cute kid
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francesca

I’m happy that monarchy is still alive in some countries!!!!!!!! happy 2nd birthday hisahito

Fartnog Buttstinkle

Why would you be happy that such a disgusting, archaic form of government still exists? There’s a reason monarchies aren’t as common as they used to be…

RMilner

The birth of this prince unfortunately let Japan off the hook of the necessity to confront the situation of male primogeniture when there are no heirs.

The Overthinker

Very convenient timing, indeed – they were all set to give it some serious thought, and then along comes a boy….

jprett

Although I disagree with the existence of monarchies, I think we need to stop giving them a hard time, the kids at least. They’re born into a celebrity they’d couldn’t shirk even if they wanted to. Hisahito could have the potential to be a great leader, Prime Minister maybe, but he’ll never get the chance to be his own man. That is their curse, Royals I mean, so little free will. Money, sure, but there are literally thousands of careers they could never, practically speaking, hold. I may not have their privilege, but I’d be willing to die for what I have and they don’t, the right to live the life I choose, without the world giving me a hard time about it.

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