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Japan princess gives birth to boy
Herald Sun ^
| 6 September 2006
Posted on 09/05/2006 7:14:36 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
JAPAN'S Princess Kiko gave birth today to a baby boy – the first male heir to be born into the ancient imperial family in more than four decades, Japanese media reported.
Princess Kiko, 39, the wife of the emperor's younger son, Prince Akishino, gave birth by Caesarean section after complications in her pregnancy, public broadcaster NHK said.
The child will be third in line to the throne after crown prince Naruhito, the baby's uncle, and his father, Akishino.
The birth is likely to stall debate on revising the 1947 imperial succession law to allow women to inherit the Japanese throne.
No royal males had been born since the baby's father in 1965.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: babyboy; japan; nips; prince; princess; royalfamily; royals
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This should make the jappie chappies very happy!
To: DTogo
This should make Japanese very happy!
Japan ping!
2
posted on
09/05/2006 7:16:14 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just b/c your paranoid; Doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you. :^)
To: skinkinthegrass
3
posted on
09/05/2006 7:17:45 PM PDT
by
usmcobra
(Beware of Southerners that start rattling of their National Origins, The correct answer is American!)
To: Aussie Dasher
Wow, that is good news for the Imperial family!
To: Aussie Dasher
They can call him 'Kiko-Man'!
To: Aussie Dasher
Just in time for Halloween it reminds me of the chant we used as kids:
Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees, candy please!
6
posted on
09/05/2006 7:23:07 PM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(The California Republican Party needs Arnold the way a drowning man needs an anvil.)
To: Aussie Dasher
7
posted on
09/05/2006 7:23:07 PM PDT
by
Calvin Coollidge
(The last really great president.)
To: Aussie Dasher
Have they tossed a fork on the floor to get a name yet?
8
posted on
09/05/2006 7:23:25 PM PDT
by
digger48
To: who_would_fardels_bear
They can call him 'Kiko-Man'! Soy what's your point?
9
posted on
09/05/2006 7:23:38 PM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(The California Republican Party needs Arnold the way a drowning man needs an anvil.)
To: Aussie Dasher
Nihonjin ga omedeto gozaimasu!
10
posted on
09/05/2006 7:23:53 PM PDT
by
B-Chan
(Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
To: Aussie Dasher
DU is very UN happy right now.......
11
posted on
09/05/2006 7:24:39 PM PDT
by
cmsgop
( President Mahmud Ahmadinejad Must Purify Himself in The Waters of Lake Minnetonka)
To: B-Chan
Whatever you reckon's a fair thing!!!
12
posted on
09/05/2006 7:25:24 PM PDT
by
Aussie Dasher
(The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
To: cmsgop
IF DU is unhappy that makes me as happy as the Jappie chappies!
13
posted on
09/05/2006 7:26:27 PM PDT
by
Aussie Dasher
(The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
To: Aussie Dasher
At least someone is having kids over there.
To: Aussie Dasher
Congratulations to the Princess and Japanese Royal Family.
15
posted on
09/05/2006 7:33:50 PM PDT
by
Clintonfatigued
(illegal aliens commit crimes that Americans won't commit)
To: who_would_fardels_bear
They can call him 'Kiko-Man'!Wa-hari-mas...
To: digger48
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posted on
09/05/2006 7:38:14 PM PDT
by
mollynme
(cogito, ergo freepum)
To: B-Chan
wat-a-shino-nama-aywa-soy boy-deska?
My Japanese is a little rusty... wa-hari-masu?
To: Aussie Dasher
Anzen umare omedetoh gozaimasu.
Itsumo Kamisama ni shukufuku sareru yo ni oinori moshiagemasu.
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posted on
09/05/2006 7:41:26 PM PDT
by
struggle
((The struggle continues))
To: struggle
Same to you, fellah!!! :-)
20
posted on
09/05/2006 7:42:33 PM PDT
by
Aussie Dasher
(The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
To: Aussie Dasher
Ah, sorry I should have translated
Congradulations on a safe birth.
I pray that God will bless you.
Btw, I was REALLY HOPING THAT lil' princess Aiko would be the first emperess in many years of Japanese history. What? Since Himiko 1500 years ago?
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posted on
09/05/2006 7:44:51 PM PDT
by
struggle
((The struggle continues))
To: ElkGroveDan; who_would_fardels_bear
They can call him 'Kiko-Man'! Soy what's your point?
I hope that only a tempura-ry name.
To: Larry Lucido
They can call him 'Kiko-Man'!
Soy what's your point?
I hope that only a tempura-ry name.
Wasabi his name again?
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posted on
09/05/2006 7:46:39 PM PDT
by
struggle
((The struggle continues))
To: Larry Lucido
I hope that only a tempura-ry name. Su she says now.
24
posted on
09/05/2006 7:47:37 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(the war on poverty should include health club memberships for the morbidly poor)
To: Aussie Dasher; maikeru; Dr. Marten; Eric in the Ozarks; Al Gator; snowsislander; sushiman; ...
Japan * ping * (kono risuto ni hairitai ka detai wo shirasete kudasai : let me know if you want on or off this list)
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posted on
09/05/2006 7:53:49 PM PDT
by
DTogo
(I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
To: struggle
Or if Kiko is a Johnny Cash fan:
A boy named Sushi!
To: Sir Francis Dashwood
wat-a-shino-nama-aywa-soy boy-deska? If you don't know your own name, I certainly can't tell you!
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posted on
09/05/2006 7:57:35 PM PDT
by
mollynme
(cogito, ergo freepum)
To: freedumb2003; who_would_fardels_bear; struggle
I think he'll be a Buckeye fan. His folks were saying "Ohio gozaimasu" to him this morning.
I think his dad's a Florida fan, though. He was telling folks "ali-gators gozaimasu."
To: Aussie Dasher
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posted on
09/05/2006 8:07:34 PM PDT
by
Dr.Zoidberg
(Mohammedism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
To: Larry Lucido
ali-gators gozaimasu.Don't touch my moustach!
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posted on
09/05/2006 8:07:52 PM PDT
by
mollynme
(cogito, ergo freepum)
To: DTogo
Saw them in the Fukuoka airport three years ago. Really amazing how the people still react when they see the Imperial family. Congratulations to all Japanese and especially to the parents.
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posted on
09/05/2006 8:09:50 PM PDT
by
ElCid89
(the corps...the corps...and the corps...)
To: B-Chan
Nihonjin ga omedeto gozaimasu!
Watashi mo !!! Omedeto !!
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posted on
09/05/2006 8:11:38 PM PDT
by
Zetman
(I believe the children are the next generation.)
To: mollynme
To: struggle
To: struggle
I pray that God will bless you.
Didn't I see an "itsumo" (always) in there somewhere?? Hence: "I pray that God will ALWAYS bless you"??. It is a real question!! I know maybe eight words of Japanese, but I know how to recombine them endlessly so that they sound REALLY impressive!!
:)
My wife is Japanese, and says that she is not sure how she feels about the birth of the prince. I think she was sort-of hoping that a woman would get a chance to sit upon the throne.
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posted on
09/05/2006 8:18:50 PM PDT
by
Zetman
(I believe the children are the next generation.)
To: Aussie Dasher
Congrats to the Imperial family.
It's nice to read some GOOD NEWS for a change.
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posted on
09/05/2006 8:37:54 PM PDT
by
Palladin
(Ceasefire? What ceasefire??--IDF)
To: mollynme
ali-gators gozaimasu.
Don't touch my moustach!
Eat a turkey muscle!
(Ittadakimasu!)
37
posted on
09/05/2006 9:21:32 PM PDT
by
struggle
((The struggle continues))
To: Zetman
>>Didn't I see an "itsumo" (always) in there somewhere?? Hence: "I pray that God will ALWAYS bless you"??. It is a real question!! I know maybe eight words of Japanese, but I know how to recombine them endlessly so that they sound REALLY impressive!!
:)
>>>My wife is Japanese, and says that she is not sure how she feels about the birth of the prince. I think she was sort-of hoping that a woman would get a chance to sit upon the throne.
I'm a lazy translator. Believe me, I have blindly stormed through translating important journal submissions written by important Japanese professors, and the $50 every 250 words somehow STILL made its way to my doorstep. But now I teach at a 98% black high school in the Deep South. Truth is stranger than fiction.
My wife is Japanese too, and she really has no feelings about the whole matter. She shrinks from singing "Kimi ga yo," but she loves the "Star Spangled Banner." She LOVES WAL-MART and TARGET. Like I said though, I was hoping Aiko would make it to the throne, but on second thought, it would probably inspire some military hijinx from China and North Korea (If they still exist when she attained the throne).
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posted on
09/05/2006 9:32:00 PM PDT
by
struggle
((The struggle continues))
To: Sir Francis Dashwood
"My Japanese is a little rusty... wa-hari-masu?"
If you mean "I don't understand," that's 'wa kari masu.'
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posted on
09/05/2006 9:34:47 PM PDT
by
Rembrandt
(We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
To: Rembrandt
If you mean "I don't understand," that's 'wa kari masu.'
Wakarimahen ha "I don't understand" chau ka?
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posted on
09/05/2006 9:41:49 PM PDT
by
struggle
((The struggle continues))
To: Sir Francis Dashwood
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posted on
09/05/2006 10:11:49 PM PDT
by
B-Chan
(Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
Well if that wasn't a reasonable excuse to down some Sake, I don't know what is.
Kampai!
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posted on
09/05/2006 11:30:39 PM PDT
by
Hoplite
To: Aussie Dasher
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posted on
09/06/2006 2:18:08 AM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(..is an American allright, but is not in Japan, folks. Thanks for letting me keep the moniker.)
To: Rembrandt; B-Chan
This Ronin hasn't spoken Japanese in a long time. Hirigana, Katakana and Kahngi are not easy to figure out.
To: Aussie Dasher
Best wishes to the imperial family and all their imperial subjects, and a thousand felicitations on their Seven Islands.....
Heka tenno banzai!
To: struggle
If you mean "I don't understand," that's 'wa kari masu.'From my studies, it's "wa kari masin."
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posted on
09/06/2006 5:35:42 AM PDT
by
Tolkien
("It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." ---Voltaire)
To: Aussie Dasher
wow this is big news. A lot of people were getting worried that there would be no heir. CONGRATS!
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posted on
09/06/2006 6:57:40 AM PDT
by
rudypoot
To: DTogo; Aussie Dasher
Thanks....guys/gals :D
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posted on
09/06/2006 8:16:24 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just b/c your paranoid; Doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you. :^)
To: Tolkien
If you mean "I don't understand," that's 'wa kari masu.'
From my studies, it's "wa kari masin."
Wakari (verb root) masen (Honorific negative)
"Don't understand"
Wakari (verb root) masu (Honorific positive)
"I understand"
There you have it: Wakarimasen ka? Hai! Wakarimasu.
Props:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpBXylIRE4c
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posted on
09/06/2006 3:20:12 PM PDT
by
struggle
((The struggle continues))
To: struggle
They can call him 'Kiko-Man'!
Soy what's your point?
I hope that only a tempura-ry name.
Wasabi his name again? You say a boy named Sushi?
Okay, this is just getting silly! (muffled giggles)
Perpetual motion--a cow drinking milk.
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posted on
09/06/2006 6:12:55 PM PDT
by
PandaRosaMishima
(she who tends the Nightunicorn)
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