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Post by nuharoo on Sept 8, 2006 0:05:02 GMT -4
He might. I think he sees what those monsters are doing to his wife and he might get a little revenge against them when he is the Emperor. The IHA do have quite a bit of power, but he might appeal to the public and get the help from the Diet. The IHA might struggle and screech, but he will be the Emperor and he might exercise his Imperial Prerogatives to the maximum limit to get rid of them. After all the misery they've caused his family I'm sure he's just biding time and waiting for his chance.
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Post by kafka on Oct 1, 2006 23:38:53 GMT -4
A few random tidbits of news: A political ally of Koizumi's successor, the extreme (EXTRRRRRRRRREME far right neo-natioinalist) Abe, has announced plans to introduce a bill which will limit the imperial succession *ONLY* to males. Which is no surprise to anyone who knew Abe before he took over as PM, especially given family's past and how his father was a big deal in wartime Japan's cabinet. (On a side note, the chap has also announced plans to essentially return Japan to its pre-war position, complete with a big standing army. There's a great article on how even the US has finally given pause over all this and is concerned, but that's probably OT, although I'd dearly love to post it). Meanwhile, the IHA has announced that Masako will no longer be "allowed" visits overseas to "convalesce." IOW, now that they have their heir, they have decided any break or license they gave her is going to be curtailed, because they don't need her anymore. Nor do they need to permit her to "save face" as they did during Kiko's final weeks of pregnancy. In fact, the IHA has recently announced a trip or two overseas for Naruhito, but only for him. Masako is clearly going to stay home and pay the price for her "shame." Masako's grandfather died at age 98 last week or so, and Masako was permitted to go to the funeral. That's actually a big deal in terms of the IHA because, when her grandmother died a few years ago, the IHA was actually hesitating as to whether to allow her to attend. They were still trying to punish the couple for Naruhito's comments against the IHA a little while before and, for a while, it actually seemed like the IHA would forbid her the right to attend. In the meantime, a young palace guard seems to have committed suicide while attending to Masako & Naruhito's palace. There was no suicide note, so the cause of death is up in the air, but I'll try to avoid inappropriate snarking about wanting to die while imprisoned in that palace. A palace which, btw, also houses the rival royals, Akishino, Kiko, their children and the new male heir. Must be a joy to live there...... NOT. Here are some time sensitive photos of Masako attending the funeral service for her grandfather. I don't know how long the link will last. Here are some photos of Aiko with her parents arriving at Masako's grandfather's place to pay their respects. The grandfather in question is the one around whom conspiracy rumours circulate. Namely, that Masako was pressured and forced into marrying into the Imperial Family in exchange for lienancy against prosecuting the chap for mass deaths resulting from an industrial accident, and in return for Masako's father being advanced in the Diplomatic Corps.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2006 0:10:50 GMT -4
I already feel so sorry for the new baby prince, whose sole purpose in life has probably been defined to breeding already. And I totally love how Japanese news organizations keep referring to Masako and her "inability to adjust to royal life." Oh, yeah, it's absolutely normal to demand a western-educated career diplomat to adjust to those arcane rules, that approximately 98% of the population doesn't give a damn about. As for living underneath one roof with the Akishino family...well, in my mind I have this vision of palace underlings (who are said to like Kiko more than Masako) being snide and snarky in the fake-fakeity-fake subtle way. Like how saying to your neighbor, "Oh, Mrs. Jones, your dog is so lively!" is the equivalence of "Shut your damn dog up, beyotch!" Oh, yeah, life would be really fun there. Now that Kiko has won against Masako in the giving birth to male heir department, the focus would be on the performance of the royal children in school. Is it too much for me to wish that Aiko would be this absolutely brilliant student and outshines her cousins in the academics?
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Post by kafka on Oct 2, 2006 0:36:39 GMT -4
I already feel so sorry for the new baby prince, whose sole purpose in life has probably been defined to breeding already. The IHA came out with a statement about how they weren't going to force him to conform with requirements of the past. I just about snorted my Diet Coke through my nose. Like, RIGHT, SUUUUUUUUUUURE! It was a while back but I can look up and link the article because it was a blast, right down to the chap they quoted who was friends with Naruhito at lower school and who said he "wasn't always happy but pretended and went along with the requirements." (Uh-huh........ what a surprise. ) Anyway, there is no way that the IHA won't indoctrinise that boy from his first conscient moment, until he's the biggest IHA-like, Tomahito-like mysognistic, little snot. Poor Aiko. The Mainichi newspaper recently conducted a poll which said that 72% of the Japanese public *STILL* favours a female Empress. As a friend of mine on my board said, "Thank God at least 72% of the Japanese are still sane!" And he's right, but the numbers have gone down a lot. They're up since the announcement of Kiko's pregnancy and a lot higher than I thought they would be be after the delivery of a male heir, but they're still much, much lower than they were prior to Kiko's announcement. One of my best friends' family back in Japan almost never hears half the news and gets the unfiltered stuff from him and me, which they're always shocked to hear. And that just makes me think that most of these numbers are easily swayed by the news. News which the IHA controls and is highly censored. I've written a few pieces in the past about how the Japanese media censors itself and how the IHA controls the release of information, as well as how they manipulate it through leaks, so I have to think that the numbers for *ALL* these polls simply aren't representative. Because, bottom line, the majority of the Japanese people don't have access to the full story about their Imperial Family unless they turn to outside sources. But even then, that's limited, because the IHA puts a stranglehold on the information which gets out. Sure, the Japanese press may not divulge half of what they know, but if only 10% of the truth gets out and only 1% of that is printed...... I know none of that was your point, and my apologies for taking it and running with it, but I'm just bitter about how the IHA's control over facts and the press manipulates people's opinion about the Empress/succession issue. They don't hesitate to discuss Abe's plans for a new Japanese Reich, but god forbid they give Masako any good press, or talk about the realities of "Saint Kiko." I've actually read a few pieces referring to "Saint Kiko" which is how some of my friends and people on my board now refer to the woman. With irony and much contempt. The way the media has turned her into the perfect woman, and the ideal Japanese wife, is vomitous enough, without all the slow jibes at Masako. I really think that the palace press is pressured into that because the IHA is setting up the myth for the future Empress, decades in advance. Lord knows, they destroyed Michiko when both CPss and Empress, so they never hesitate when they have an agenda. And their agenda to is to make Kiko into the Sainted Mother and Virgin Mary-equivalent who saved the Imperial Family. A big FAH to them and to Kiko as well. And her loathsome, slimy, disloyal, power-hungry, Judas of a husband as well. With family like that, who needs enemies? I don't think it will make any difference in the long run. We never heard much about Mako or the other girl's life; and now that there is a male heir, who will care about a silly, minor, utterly irrevelent *girl*?! If the silly, sub-human, female "creature" does well and the new holy, benighted, saintly, godly BOY does badly, it's all the more reason to squash down the facts. Something the IHA is wonderful at doing. And if Aiko doesn't do well, then, still.... who cares? She's just a girl. And now that there is a boy, everything he does will be spun into being the epitome of godly perfection....... I feel badly for Naruhito. It's hard enough being a regular Emperor under the IHA's control, but he's now going to be a lame duck Emperor before he's even started. Because the IHA is always going to emphasize things in Akishino's favour and with an eye to how *HIS* family holds the future. At least American presidents get a few months and years before being rendered into a "lame duck." Naruhito and his IHA-hated wife are that before they've even started.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2006 1:23:26 GMT -4
This is totally OT, Kafka, if this isn't asking too much, where is your board? You guys seem to be having more fun than I am! Can I join, pretty please? ;D I think the IHA realizes that they will slide into the big black hole of nothingness if the IF is allowed to speak for themselves. God forbid people for having independent minds! Sheesh. Who are the IHA trying to fool, anyway? Everyone knows from elementary biology that the male sperm determines the sex. There's got to be something in the imperial genes that's making them not producing male babies. The situation is just so disgusting, however it also reflects on this persisting trend in Asian society. My aunt's sister was forced to divorce her husband by her evil MiL because she could't deliver a baby boy for the family. Our neighbor's husband took a mistress who's younger than his youngest daughter because their son died, and there was no male heir, and the neighbor was past her child-bearing age. So now her daughters has half-brothers who could be her children. I could go on and on (so many examples, where to begin?) but I'm getting OT. The situation is just so rotten and frustrating.
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Post by Auroranorth on Oct 2, 2006 11:53:10 GMT -4
Meanwhile, the IHA has announced that Masako will no longer be "allowed" visits overseas to "convalesce." IOW, now that they have their heir, they have decided any break or license they gave her is going to be curtailed, because they don't need her anymore. Nor do they need to permit her to "save face" as they did during Kiko's final weeks of pregnancy. In fact, the IHA has recently announced a trip or two overseas for Naruhito, but only for him. Masako is clearly going to stay home and pay the price for her "shame." Masako's grandfather died at age 98 last week or so, and Masako was permitted to go to the funeral. That's actually a big deal in terms of the IHA because, when her grandmother died a few years ago, the IHA was actually hesitating as to whether to allow her to attend. They were still trying to punish the couple for Naruhito's comments against the IHA a little while before and, for a while, it actually seemed like the IHA would forbid her the right to attend. I keep having the urge to go lead a commando team into Japan and grab her and Aiko. Poor woman.
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Post by Mouse on Oct 2, 2006 21:01:49 GMT -4
This is totally OT, Kafka, if this isn't asking too much, where is your board? You guys seem to be having more fun than I am! Can I join, pretty please? ;D I think the IHA realizes that they will slide into the big black hole of nothingness if the IF is allowed to speak for themselves. God forbid people for having independent minds! Sheesh. Here's hoping the RF does speak up, then. It would make things interesting, at the very least. Seriously, maybe abolishing the Japanese throne is the way to go. If they're so remote and irrelevant, there's no point in keeping them. As it is, with any luck little Aiko will, like her aunt, marry a nice commoner and give up her titles, thus freeing herself to live a relatively normal life.
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Post by kafka on Oct 2, 2006 22:55:28 GMT -4
Here's hoping the RF does speak up, then. It would make things interesting, at the very least. Seriously, maybe abolishing the Japanese throne is the way to go. If they're so remote and irrelevant, there's no point in keeping them. Intellectually, objectively and rationally, I would completely agree with you. But the small, totally child-like/naive, idealistic side of me just winces at your comment. I know you're right on so many levels, you really are! And I've debated this with friends of mine who say that the best thing for Masako and the rest of the poor Imperial sods, is for the whole farce to be over. But I can't help it. The idealistic side of me thinks it would be a bloody shame for 2 and a half millenium worth of history to be tossed to the side, for all this to mean nothing, and --- really, the main thing --- for there to be no actual fairness or justice in Masako's life. This isn't like the endless debate about Diana and when she had her lovers, or how she may have possibly been justified in doing things. If one's life is going to be scrapped on the dunghill of history, then at least it should be because someone actually *did* something. With Masako, that's not the case. But, aren't you really right when it comes down to it: shouldn't she be set free to live life without this hellish prison system? I know you're probably more logically realistic, but it just bothers me that these people should be able to get away with things, such that --- if 2,500+ years of history should be tossed aside, it should be done on the most unfair of reasons --- and for the most ridiculously, unreasonable, irrational, non-common-sense of theories. It just seems like such an incredibly bloody waste. But you're right. The most humane, caring and altruistic feeling would want the whole system to go down, and for Masako and Aiko to be happy. But that just seems like injustice and cruelty (A.K.A. the "IHA") winning, and ... and..... and...... I can't handle the IHA winning every battle, as they always do. I know I sound like a little girl stomping her feet and wanting Superman to save the little kitten in the tree, but dammit, I'm holding out for justice. These people destroyed Empress Nagako and turned her into the Dragon Lady; they beat down CP and then-Empress Michiko until she stopped talking for days, weeks and months on end; and then they battered down Masako, until her whole body broke down on her and she almost lost her mind. For these people to be put aside, may be the most altruistic, fair outcome, but ..... but...... that means there is no justice in the world, that the bigoted, mysognystic hateful racists end up winning, that no-one pays a price for their awful behavior, that there is no Karma, and that the way to win is just to wait until the evil people get redlined as irrelevent. I'm sorry, this is probably no way as serious as my comments make it seem but, in some ways, it is. You're right that they should all be free of things, but it just bothers me that a govt. can destroy, manipulate or control so many innocent lives on the basis of things outside of their control, or for the most medieval of reasons. I can't get upset about the thousand of nameless dead in the Middle East who die for something similar, but I can relate more to Masako's much more superificial situtation and the injustice of people getting away with things. I know that's hardly what you meant, but I just get so frustrated. When is escape and freedom just a cop-out, or a question of injustice being compensated?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2006 2:47:36 GMT -4
I was looking at those pictures of Princess Masako at her grandmother's funeral. Princess Masako is in her early forties and her grandmother died at 98. That means that the Princess has fifty to sixty more years of house arrest and abuse in the Imperial Palace to endure. Bad Karma and Mean Spirits.
We could all get together and free her. Really! We just rappel across the Imperial Palace Moat and rescue her! Then we helicopter her out of there and tell the IHA that we lost her in Paris when we were sightseeing at Versailles.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2006 2:57:04 GMT -4
Great idea, Chatchien! But won't we need to take Naruhito and Aiko too? And on top of that, they don't have passports. And do we want to take the Emperor and the Empress, too? (eeeeeeeek, how does one go about rescuing an Emperor, Empress, CP and CPss AND ex-future Empress? Enlisting the help of FBI? CIA? Mossad? The French Foreign Legion, anyone?) We can leave Akishino and Kiko to fulfill their life-long dreams and all and everyone can live happily after.
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