Japan pregnant princess to be hospitalised
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-08-15 15:44
TOKYO - Japan's Princess Kiko, pregnant with a possible heir to the throne,
will go into hospital on Wednesday, Kyodo news agency reported.
Japanese Princess
Kiko, wife of Emperor Akihito's second son Prince Akishino, arrives at a
memorial service for unknown soldiers at Chidorigafuchi National Tomb in
Tokyo in this May 29, 2006 file photo. Princess Kiko, 39, is expecting her
third child, raising hopes that a male heir may be born into the Imperial
family for the first time in four decades. Japanese media had said last
week that Kiko was likely to give birth through a Caesarean operation
around Sept. 6, ahead of her late September due date, because of a
complication in her pregnancy. [Reuters] |
Japanese media had said last week that Kiko, 39, the wife of Emperor
Akihito's younger son Prince Akishino, was likely to give birth through a
Caesarean operation around September 6, ahead of her late September due date,
because of a complication in her pregnancy.
No male has been born into Japan's imperial family since 1965, and the
possibility that Kiko might bear a son has halted plans to revise a 1947
imperial succession law to give women equal rights to inherit the throne. Crown
Prince Naruhito, the emperor's elder son, has one daughter, 4-year-old Aiko.
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