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...facelift, which cost $44 milion, has blown the cobwebs off. A giant spyhole has been cut in the first floor to reveal two levels at once. The 3,000 exhibits, dating from 1500 to 1900, are assembled by topics such as birth, family and death. Baby things, wedding gowns and funeral tapestries bring people of the past back to life. And it's no longer "Look, don't touch." Visitors can assemble an 18th century chair or try their hands at tapestry weaving...
...with everyone else,” Hannah S. Sarvasy ’03 says. “Some Americans say the Christmas tree is a universal American thing and for me it’s really not. I can’t separate Christmas from the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ...
...thought it was a good idea. But last month, a leading Liberal Democratic Party politician, Taro Aso, said such discussion was premature. "We are not at a point where we can assume that no boys will be born in the future," Aso said. Of course, that was before the birth of the princess. The next round of royal debate has begun: Can Japan tolerate an Empress...
...Around the Senzoku train station in Tokyo's Meguro, strangers bowed and smiled to one another and shared special editions of newspapers published to commemorate the occasion. BABY GIRL! screamed headlines. Queues snaked around shops selling royal-birth specials. Red lanterns swayed and banners extolling congratulations hung from homes and buildings. Yasuhiko Teraza, 67, and Teruhiko Itoh, 69, both hightailed it here from across town when they heard about the birth on the TV news. "I think it's great that it's a girl," says Teraza, pulling at his gray felt baseball cap. "They've got female royalty...
...royal family, which drove people to stop caring," says 34-year-old Toshiaki Ozeki, a gym instructor. But Ozeki is a royal convert now. Masako's miscarriage two years ago, Naruhito's obvious anger with the way the news media treated the tragedy and Saturday's successful birth all served to make the royals seem more human, more like Ozeki and his girlfriend, who cope day in and day out with life's ups and downs. "They stopped seeming just like obscure symbols," Ozeki says. "A birth of a child is an amazing thing." Amazing, indeed. This child, the princess...