By TATSURO SUGIURA/ Staff Writer
February 16, 2022 at 19:27 JST
Prince Hisahito and his father, Crown Prince Fumihito, on the grounds of the Akasaka Estate in August 2020 (Provided by the Imperial Household Agency)
Prince Hisahito, second in line to the Chrysanthemum Throne, has been accepted by the University of Tsukuba’s Senior High School in the Otsuka district of Tokyo for enrollment in April, the Imperial Household Agency announced Feb. 16.
It will make him the first member of the imperial family in postwar Japan to enroll in a senior high school other than Gakushuin University’s senior high school.
Hisahito, 15, is the only son of Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko and the nephew of Emperor Naruhito.
The agency said Hisahito, a third-year student at Ochanomizu University Junior High School in the capital’s Bunkyo Ward, was admitted to the University of Tsukuba’s Senior High School through a special program that allows students selected from schools affiliated with the universities to go on to each other’s schools.
Hisahito attended a kindergarten affiliated with Ochanomizu University for three years from 2010.
He went on to study at Ochanomizu University Elementary School, which also made him the first imperial family member born after World War II to enroll in an elementary school other than Gakushuin Primary School.
In April 2019, he entered Ochanomizu University Junior High School. There had been much speculation about which senior high school Hisahito would go to as Ochanomizu University Senior High School only accepts female students.
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