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...married the prince, Owada would have to give up her position as an economic specialist in the Foreign Ministry’s North America Division...
...only months after starting at the Foreign Ministry, Owada’s life took another turn. At a banquet in Tokyo, Owada met Crown Prince Naruhito, the bachelor prince. While the prince immediately took to Owada, there were obstacles to marriage. A Crown Princess, by Japanese tradition, must come from an aristocratic family, be under 25, and have never had a previous romantic relationship...
Amid rumors and pressure from the Japanese media, Owada left Japan in 1988 for a two-year, Foreign Minsitry-sponsored study at Oxford. But in 1993, the Imperial Household announced the engagement, and that June Owada became Crown Princess of Japan, only the second commoner to ever marry into the royal family...
...month-long period—which was created as a result of the University’s new unified calendar reform that moved the fall semester’s finals from late January to mid-December—would provide students with opportunities such as briefly studying a foreign language or going on a trip led by a faculty member...
...national scale, the number of available positions in the field of English, for instance, has dropped 35 percent from last year. Similarly, those in foreign languages have dropped 39 percent, according...