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English: His attitude as the Emperor is also commented as follows; 'The Emperor is pitching balls with all his might inside the strike zone (namely, the Emperor is doing his utmost while observing the Article four of Japan's constitution)' (the source; an article written by Katsumi IWAI in Bungei Shunju magazine).
Japanese: 「（日本国憲法第4条すれすれの）ストライクゾーンに精一杯（ボール）を投げ込んでいる」（岩井克巳・文藝春秋(雑誌)）とも評される。
English: Moreover, he has sincerely reflected the losses Japan incurred from the defeat in the days of the Emperor Showa, by facing the negative assets in the Showa period through journeys to comfort the war dead.
Japanese: また昭和天皇が敗戦で喪ったものを慰霊の旅を通して、昭和の負の遺産に向き合うことによって抱え込んでいる。
English: For celebrating the 10th anniversary of his enthronement, a national festival was held on November 20, 1999 under the auspices of the government.
Japanese: 平成11年（1999年）に即位10周年を迎え、政府主催で11月20日に天皇陛下御即位十年をお祝いする国民祭典が開催された。
English: He realized the Imperial visit to Okinawa prefecture in 1993, which had been the earnest wish of the Emperor Showa.
Japanese: 平成5年（1993年）には昭和天皇の悲願であった沖縄行幸（天皇の訪問）を果たした。
English: He made an unscheduled visit to the cenotaph to comfort the souls of Himeyuri students, which was publicized in 2007 on TV shows.
Japanese: このおりには予定になかったひめゆり学徒隊の慰霊碑にも訪れ、このことは平成19年（2007年）になってワイドショーで紹介された。
English: As specific remedies for tuberculosis like streptomycin had already been developed, he almost recovered by 1957 after being treated by those remedies.
Japanese: このとき、ストレプトマイシンなどの特効薬が発見されており、それの投与による治療を行い、昭和32年（1957年）にほぼ治癒した。
English: He voluntarily revealed that he had contracted tuberculosis, which had been kept secret for long, in the speech delivered in the 60th National Meeting of Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association held in March 2009.
Japanese: このことはしばらく公にされていなかったが、平成21年（2009年）3月に行われた、第60回結核予防全国大会の挨拶にて、自ら明かした。
English: He was diagnosed as having prostate cancer in December 2002 when he was hospitalized for a complete physical checkup.
Japanese: 平成14年（2002年）12月、人間ドックに入った際に前立腺癌が発見された。
English: He received prostatectomy on January 18 of the following year at The University of Tokyo Hospital so as to ensure the success of the surgery, not at Hospital of the Imperial Household where members of the Imperial family usually have medical examinations.
Japanese: 翌年1月18日に、前立腺の全摘出手術を行なったが、この前立腺癌手術に当たっては万全を期すため、皇族が受診する宮内庁病院ではなく、東京大学医学部附属病院に入院して行なわれた。
English: Neither recurrence of the prostate cancer nor spread from its original site to other organs has been detected at present.'
Japanese: 「天皇陛下は定期健診において今のところ前立腺癌の再発や他臓器への転移は見られない。」
English: However, as the bone density has been in decline due to the side effect of hormonal therapy, the Emperor's bones may become so fragile as to be diagnosed as osteoporosis if being left as they are.'
Japanese: 「しかしホルモン療法の副作用で骨密度が低下しており、このままでは骨粗鬆症に移行する恐れがある。」
English: At the press conference on December 9 of the same year, the Imperial Household Agency announced that the Emperor had a supraventricular arrhythmia in the beginning of December, in addition to the inflammation of the stomach and the duodenum that was detected by an examination of the digestive tract.
Japanese: 同年12月9日の宮内庁記者会見に於いては、天皇が12月上旬に上室性不整脈に罹患し、また、消化器官検査で胃と十二指腸に炎症が発見されたことがなどが発表された。
English: The Imperial Household Agency expressed its view that mental and physical stress is the root of these disorders, mainly coming from the anxiety over the issue related to the succession to the Imperial Throne, saying 'The Emperor is concerned about various problems related to the Imperial household including the issue over the succession to the Imperial Throne.'
Japanese: 原因は心身のストレスであり、宮内庁は「将来にわたる皇統の問題を始め、皇室にかかわるもろもろの問題を憂慮されている」と述べ、ストレスの中心に皇位継承問題があるとの考えを示した。
English: As the Emperor had desired that his official duties and others should be reviewed after 2009, the 20th anniversary of his enthronement, the Imperial Household Agency did not announce the measures to reduce the Emperor's burden until January 29, 2009.
Japanese: 天皇自身が、公務等の見直しは在位20周年となる平成21年以降からと希望していたため、平成21年（2009年）1月29日に宮内庁より軽減策が発表された。
English: Furthermore, from the standpoint that anti-Japanese sentiment in China became stronger after the visit, lots of people criticized the visit, saying that it should not have been carried out.
Japanese: またこれ以降中華人民共和国国内の反日が強まったとの見地から、行なうべきでなかったとの批判が強い。
English: In addition, there are other strange stories in connection with this visit as follows: When People's Republic of China tried to confer the Kin-in (the Golden Seal of the King of Japan) to the Emperor, the close aides could narrowly save a difficult situation by hastily refusing the proposal, There was a rumor circulating before the visit that the Emperor himself decided to visit China, and so on.
Japanese: 関連して、中華人民共和国側が天皇に金印を授けようとして側近があわてて断り事なきを得る、事前には訪中は天皇の意思であるという吹聴がなされた、などのエピソードが伝わる。
English: However, the Emperor had often referred to the visit to China by composing Waka (31-syllable Japanese poems) and other means until anti-Japanese sentiment in China became stronger.
Japanese: もっとも、天皇自身は中華人民共和国が反日を強めるまでは、この訪問を御製に詠むなどしていた。
English: Although the People's Republic of China requested the Emperor to attend the opening ceremony of Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, the Imperial Household Agency turned down the request.
Japanese: 中華人民共和国からはその後2008年、北京オリンピック開会式に天皇の訪中の要請がなされたが、断っている。
English: There is a strange story in connection with this visit to Saipan that a group of South Korean stretched a banner with disrespectful comments only to remove after being protested by the Chamorro, indigenous people.
Japanese: サイパン島訪問時、韓国人の団体が不敬な内容の横断幕を張り出したが、地元のチャモロ人からの抗議を受け取り外したというエピソードがある。
English: As he was the first prince born after four princesses, his birth was celebrated on a gigantic scale.
Japanese: 第五子にして初めて誕生した皇子であっただけに、その誕生は非常な喜びをもって受け止められた。
English: The celebrating movement was so enthusiastic that even a celebrating song with a lilting tune titled 'The Crown Prince was born' (songwriter: Hakushu KITAHARA/composer: Shinpei NAKAYAMA) was produced.
Japanese: 軽快な曲調の「皇太子さまお生まれなつた」（作詞：北原白秋/作曲：中山晋平）との奉祝歌までが作られたほどである。
English: Since the song became quite popular, some elders who had been schoolboys in those days and others have still remembered the song enough to sing it even now.
Japanese: 当時小学生であった老人などには前述の歌を未だに記憶しており、歌うことができる者もいるほどである。
English: Having many friends, he also did various mischiefs with his subjects, naughty boys.
Japanese: 学友たちとは親しく交遊し、臣下の悪童たちに混じって数々の悪戯もしたという。
English: Amusing anecdotes are told about him as follows: He talked about women with his friends, He ate a deep-fried dragonfly, He pressed on a notebook his own made stamp with a design of a container of mosquito repellent stick.
Japanese: 「帚木(源氏物語)」をした、トンボを油で揚げて食べた、蚊取り線香の容器型のスタンプを作ってノートに押したなどの逸話も伝わっている。
English: When an officer explained the war situation to the Crown Prince, the Crown Prince had doubts about suicide squad.
Japanese: 疎開先で戦況についての説明を受けた際、特別攻撃隊に対して疑問を感じた。
English: Therefore, he put a question to the officer, saying 'I think the suicide squad only results in the waste of manpower resources,' which embarrassed the officer in finding the answer.
Japanese: 「それでは人的戦力を消耗する一方ではないか？」と質問して担当将校を返答に窮させたという。
English: When the Emperor's announcement of Japan's surrender was broadcasted, the Crown Prince had listened the broadcast with other students of the Gakushuin School on a corridor of the second floor of the hotel.
Japanese: 敗戦時の玉音放送の際にはホテルの2階の廊下に他の学習院生と一緒にいた。
English: However, a chamberlain, who was quick-witted enough to think about the complex footing of the Crown Prince (he must have imagined the worst scenario in the light of the humiliating contents of the announcement), took him to Gozasho (living room for the Crown Prince) to let him listen the broadcast with close aides from the Togu-daifu (the Lord Steward to the Imperial Prince).
Japanese: しかし皇太子という立場を慮った侍従の機転によって（内容が内容だけに、何が起こるか分からない）御座所に引き返して東宮大夫以下の近臣とともに放送を聞いた。
English: He was not shaken by the broadcast at all, but he shed tears silently without moving an inch after the announcement was completed.
Japanese: 放送の内容には全く動揺を示さなかったが、放送が終わると静かに涙を流し、微動だにしなかったという。
English: Soon after the Togu-daifu's detailed explanation of the Emperor's announcement, he got over the grief, making a resolve to be the Crown Prince and the future Emperor undertaking the tasks aimed at Japan's revival from the defeat and nation's restoration.
Japanese: その後、東宮大夫から玉音放送についての説明を受けるとすぐに悲しみから立ち直り、敗戦からの復興と国家の再建を率いる皇太子、将来の天皇としての決意を固めた。
English: Such painful experience that he had been obliged to live separately from his parents led him to make a resolution to keep his children at hand, it is believed.
Japanese: またそうした辛いときに両親である天皇皇后と別々に暮らさざるを得なかった体験が、後に子供たちを手元で育てることを決意させたともいう。
English: He and his schoolmate Akira HASHIMOTO was such a close friend that they often quarreled with the Crown Prince's statue neglected.
Japanese: 学友の橋本明とは身分を忘れ本気で喧嘩をするほどの間柄であったと言われる。
English: Belonging to the Equestrian club in his school days of Gakushuin School, he played an active part as the captain since the autumn of his second grade year of high school.
Japanese: 学習院時代には馬術部に所属し、高校2年生の秋以降は主将として活躍した。
English: He won the championship in the first Kanto high school tournament held in January 1951.
Japanese: 昭和26年（1951年）1月には、第1回関東高校トーナメントにて優勝している。
English: The stamp was initially designed by using the portrait of the Crown Prince Akihito, which was turned down after meeting opposition from the Imperial Household Agency.
Japanese: その図案には明仁親王の肖像が選ばれる予定であったが、宮内庁の反対によって実現しなかった。
English: Meanwhile, of four kinds of commemorative postage stamps issued for commemorating the wedding ceremony held on April 10, 1959, two kinds of stamps, 10-yen stamp and 30-yen stamp, used the portrait of both the Crown Princess and the Crown Princess for their designs.
Japanese: ただし昭和34年（1959年）4月10日の結婚の儀の記念切手では4種のうち10円と30円で皇太子妃と一緒の肖像が発行された。
English: Moreover, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications presented "Stamp Book for Commemorating the Crown Prince's Wedding" to the Imperial family and Shoda family.
Japanese: また切手は郵政省から天皇家と正田家に『皇太子御成婚記念切手帖』が献上されいる。
English: He traveled abroad officially from March 30th to October 12th, 1953 for attending the coronation of Elizabeth II (Queen of Britain).
Japanese: 昭和28年（1953年）6月2日のエリザベス2世(イギリス女王)戴冠式のために3月30日から10月12日まで外遊。
English: As Japan had restored sovereignty in the previous year, the Crown Prince Akihito's visit to Europe was expected to be the first step for Japan to come back to the international society.
Japanese: この前年に、日本は主権を回復しており、明仁親王の訪欧は国際社会への復帰の第一歩と期待された。
English: When the Crown Prince left Japan, as many as one million people reportedly saw him off waving a small flag on the route from the Imperial Palace to the Yokohama Port.
Japanese: 出発の際には、皇居から横浜港まで、小旗を持った100万人もの人が見送ったと言う。
English: Moreover, as the Crown Prince's departure was regarded as the first and the largest-scale event since broadcasting service was started, each broadcasting station broadcasted the departure.
Japanese: また、テレビ開局以来初の大規模イベントとなり、各放送局が実況中継した。
English: Especially, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) succeeded in taking a close-up picture of the Crown Prince standing on the deck by using a 600-mm telephoto lens, which surprised viewers.
Japanese: 特に日本放送協会は600ミリ望遠レンズを使用して、甲板に立つ皇太子の姿をアップで撮影することに成功して視聴者を驚かせた。
English: He took the passenger boat President Wilson (managed by American President Line, with a speed of 19 knots and a displacement of 15,395 tons).
Japanese: 客船プレジデント・ウイルソン号（アメリカンプレジデント社、速度19ノット、排水量1万5395トン）に乗船した。
English: The Japanese often used this ship: for example, a Japanese novelist Yukio MISHIMA took this ship two years ahead of the Crown Prince's boarding.
Japanese: 同船は三島由紀夫もこの2年前に乗船したことがあり、日本人とは縁の深い船であった。
English: On the sailing route from the United States of America to the United Kingdom, he enjoyed playing Mah-jong, Shogi (Japanese Chess), Go, table tennis, etc. with two Chinese women on board and accompanying reporters.
Japanese: アメリカからイギリスへの旅路では報道陣や乗り合わせた中国人の女性二人と麻雀や将棋、囲碁、卓球なども楽しんだ。
English: Accepting a proposal of the sponsor, the Crown Prince served as a presenter at an award ceremony, giving Giuseppe Farina of his blessing.
Japanese: 主催者の提案により表彰式のプレゼンターも務め、優勝したジュゼッペ・ファリーナを祝福している。
English: (Giuseppe Farina, a star player since the prewar period and a member of Ferrari, became the first Champion of F1 Grand Prix in 1950.)
Japanese: （フェラーリ所属。戦前からの名選手で、1950年には初代F1チャンピオンを獲得している）
English: In other words, the Crown Prince Akihito was the first Japanese who mounted the winners' platform of F1 Grand Prix.
Japanese: つまり、明仁親王は日本人で初めてF1GPの表彰台に上がった人物ということになる。
English: With the United Kingdom still having bad image toward Japan as a hostile country in World War II, the Crown Prince could finally meet Elizabeth II after being kept waiting for long hours, despite being given the 13th order of seats in the coronation (a seat in the center of the front row, next to the Crown Prince of Nepal).
Japanese: 英国では、第二次世界大戦で敵対した記憶は未だ褪せておらず、戴冠式において13番目の席次（前列中央の座席で、隣席はネパール王子）を与えられたものの、女王との対面まで長時間待たされた。
English: Moreover, this official travel lasted for long period resulted in the shortage of credits enough to advance to a higher degree, which obliged him to drop out of the Department of Political Science of Gakushuin University.
Japanese: また、長期にわたって外遊した結果、単位不足で進級できず学習院大学政治学科を中退。
English: Therefore, the website of the Imperial Household Agency introduces his final academic background as follows: 'The Emperor Akihito completed the general education course of Gakushuin University.'
Japanese: このため、最終学歴は「学習院大学教育ご終了」（宮内庁のウェブサイトに拠る）としている。
English: Yoshinobu SHIMAMURA, the first chairman of "Nippon Kaigi Kokkaigiin Kondanakai" (Japan informal gathering of Diet members) was a classmate in the Department of Political Science of Gakushuin University, who passed the college entrance examination while still enrolled in Tokyo Metropolitan Ryogoku High School.
Japanese: 学習院高等科出身者以外の政治学科同級生に東京都立両国高等学校から現役進学した後の日本会議国会議員懇談会初代会長島村宜伸がいる。
English: He became a Cabinet member for the first time 39 years and five months later in August 1995, being certified as the Minister of Education by the present Emperor Akihito.
Japanese: 39年5ヵ月後の平成7年（1995年）8月村山内閣改造内閣で初入閣し今上天皇たる明仁から文部大臣の認証を受けている。
English: The Crown Prince Akihito visited the Imperial Palace a few times a week even after the marriage to be independent, having a meal with his father, the Emperor Showa frequently.
Japanese: 結婚・独立後も週に一度から数度は参内し、父昭和天皇と食事を共にすることも多かった。
English: Submitting various matters for the Emperor Showa's approval even after his independent, he informed the Emperor of all kinds of affairs.
Japanese: 諸事の決定については独立後も昭和天皇の決裁を仰ぎ、様々な事柄について報告していたと伝わる。
English: Having belief of 'I only say what I can do, without saying what I cannot do,' he scolded the member of Imperial household when the member neglected his or her duty, saying 'I can no longer leave the duty to you.'
Japanese: 「できないことは口にしない、できることだけを口にする」という信念を持っており、家族が自分の役目をおろそかにしたときには「もうしなくてよろしい」と叱責したこともあった。
English: Enjoying the fullest confidence of the Emperor Showa as the proxy, he won the highest praise from the Emperor who said ' I am quite free from anxiety because the Crown Prince helps me.'
Japanese: 昭和天皇からは名代として篤く信頼され「東宮ちゃんがいるから大丈夫」と手放しの賞賛を受けている。
English: The Crown Prince brought to Japan the bluegill native to Mississippi river system, which was donated by the Mayor of Chicago in 1960, donating it to the laboratory of the Fisheries Agency.
Japanese: 1960年にシカゴ市長により寄贈された、ミシシッピ川水系原産のブルーギルを皇太子が日本に持ち帰り、水産庁の研究所に寄贈した。
English: He introduced the bluegill into Japan considering the serious food situation in those days, but the bluegill was later revealed to be a fish that damages the ecosystem indigenous to Japan by preying aquatic insects, roe, and small and young fishes.
Japanese: これは当時の貧しい食糧事情を思っての事であったが、ブルーギルは水生昆虫や魚卵・仔稚魚を捕食して日本固有の生態系を破壊するものであった。
English: Therefore, he later made unprecedented remarks, 'I regret that the bluegill has inflicted serious damage on the ecosystem of Japan.'
Japanese: 後に「今このような結果になったことに心を痛めています」と異例の発言をしている。
English: When the 41st U.S. President George H. W. Bush came to Japan in 1992, pairing with the Crown Prince Naruhito, he played two doubles tennis matches with the U.S. President paired with Michael Armacost, the U.S. Ambassador to Japan, and won both matches.
Japanese: 平成4年（1992年）にアメリカ41代大統領ジョージ・H・W・ブッシュが来日した際には、皇太子徳仁親王とペアを組んで大統領とマイケル・アマコスト日本駐箚アメリカ合衆国大使とダブルスで2回対戦し、2回とも勝利している。
English: In the Court Dinner held at the official residence of Prime Minister on the same night, the first lady Barbara Bush joked about the President's defeat in the tennis matches in her speech made on behalf of the President who was down with influenza.
Japanese: その夜に総理大臣官邸で行われた晩餐会の席上にてインフルエンザ発症により倒れてしまった際、妻バーバラ・ブッシュがフォロースピーチでこの敗北ネタをジョークにする。
English: The Emperor Akihito has grieved over the damages caused by natural disasters broke out nationwide along with the nation, having consoled the victims.
Japanese: 全国各地で発生した自然災害に対して、ともに悲しみ、被災者をいたわる姿勢を見せている。
English: When Mt. Unzen erupted in 1991, he visited shelters to console evacuees from Shimabara City, with his knees on the floor of the shelters.
Japanese: 平成3年（1991年）、雲仙岳噴火の際には、島原市からの避難民を床に膝を着いて見舞った。
English: When the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake occurred on January 17, 1995, he visited the disaster-stricken area on January 31, only two weeks after the earthquake occurred, and sat in the correct manner on the floor of shelters while listening attentively to victims' words without putting on a pair of mules.
Japanese: 平成7年（1995年）1月17日の阪神・淡路大震災では、地震発生から2週間後の1月31日に現地に入り、スリッパも履かず避難所の床に正座して被災者の話に聞き入った。
English: Not only Japanese newspapers but also foreign newspapers made much of the Emperor's attitude, which caused a sensation on a global scale.
Japanese: この姿は日本のみならず、海外の新聞にも大きく取り上げられ反響を呼んだ。
English: A girl, one of victims losing her head unexpectedly clung to the Empress Michiko.
Japanese: この際には動転した被災者の少女が皇后に抱きつくという出来事もあった。
English: A photograph remains, showing the scene in which the Imperial couple is waving their hands from the window of a microbus to encourage the victims.
Japanese: 帰り際には、マイクロバスの窓から手を振って被災者を励ます写真も残されている。
English: When islanders were allowed to return to the Miyake-jima Island in 2006, whose volcano had erupted in 2000, the Emperor visited the island, though there was still a risk that the volcanic gas might spew.
Japanese: 平成12年（2000年）に噴火した三宅島へ、島民の帰島がかなった平成18年（2006年）には火山ガスの発生の恐れがまだあるにもかかわらず三宅島を慰問。
English: When September 11 attacks struck at the United States of America in 2001, he sent his sympathies to U.S. President George W. Bush through the U.S. Ambassador to Japan, James Baker.
Japanese: 平成13年（2001年）のアメリカ同時多発テロに際してジェームズ・ベーカー駐日アメリカ大使を通じてブッシュ大統領に見舞いの言葉を贈っている。
English: It was unprecedented that the emperor sent his sympathies to foreign countries for other reasons besides natural disaster.
Japanese: 天皇が天災以外の理由で外国にお見舞いの言葉を贈ったのは前例のないことであった。
English: It is a rule of the Imperial household to respect precedents, but some of the precedents are those that had newly been created without having had their own precedents.'
Japanese: 「皇室は前例を重んじなければなりませんが、その前例の中には前例がないにもかかわらずなされたものもあります。」
English: I believe that the Imperial household should also keep pace with the current of the times flexibly, while making much of tradition.'
Japanese: 「皇室も伝統を重んじつつ、時代の流れに柔軟に対応しなければならないと思います。」
English: When the Niigata Chuetsu Earthquake occurred in 2004, he visited the disaster-stricken area by helicopter of the Japan Self-Defense Forces.
Japanese: 平成16年（2004年）、新潟県中越地震のときには自衛隊のヘリコプターで被災地を見舞った。
English: When the Chuetsu Offshore Earthquake occurred in 2007, he not only visited the disaster-stricken area to console the victims, but also cancelled his summer vacation out of consideration for the victims.
Japanese: 平成19年（2007年）の新潟県中越沖地震に際しては現地に赴いて被災者を見舞い、また被災者を思う心情から夏の静養を取りやめた。
English: During the Imperial visit to Niigata Prefecture, he visited former Yamakoshi Village (present Nagaoka City) on September 8, 2008, where was seriously damaged by the earthquake in 2004.
Japanese: 平成20年（2008年）9月8日、新潟県行幸の折り、被害の大きかった旧山古志村（現長岡市）を視察。
English: Moreover, the Emperor was pleased after being informed that the boy (two years old at the earthquake), who was rescued four days later from the occurrence of the Niigata Chuetsu Earthquake, is growing up soundly.
Japanese: また、中越地震発生4日後に救出された男児（当時2歳）が無事に成長していることを知り、その成長を喜んだ。
English: He granted Miyazaki Prefecture and Kagoshima Prefecture, both of which were severely damaged by typhoon No.14 in 2005, a sum of money as a gift for showing his sympathy.
Japanese: 平成17年（2005年）の平成17年台風第14号で大きな被害を受けた宮崎県、鹿児島県に見舞い金として金一封を贈った。
English: As for the Noto Peninsula Earthquake in 2007, he has not yet visited the disaster-stricken area, but sent a message that 'I hope every victim would get over the difficulties.'
Japanese: 平成19年（2007年）の能登半島地震にさいしては慰問は実現されていないが「元気になってください」と言葉を寄せた。
English: He visited Fukuoka Prefecture from October 29 to October 31 in 2007 to visit the area struck by the Fukuoka Prefecture Western Offshore Earthquakes, and visited temporary shelters to console the victims on October 29.
Japanese: 平成19年10月29日から10月31日まで福岡県西方沖地震被災地を見舞うため福岡に行幸し、29日には被災者の暮らす仮設住宅を慰問した。
English: There is an episode as follows: When an entertainer "Mr. Demon Kogure" became a topic of conversation between the Emperor Akihito and a musician, the Emperor showed the musician that he knew who "Mr. Demon Kogure" is by saying 'Mr. Demon Kogure is an entertainer putting on white makeup, isn't he?'
Japanese: あるミュージシャンとの会話でデーモン小暮閣下の話題が出たおり「ああ、あの白い顔の」とその存在を知っていたことを口にした。
English: This episode was later introduced in a radio program with Mr. Demon Kogure in the program host.
Japanese: そのエピソードがデーモンがパーソナリティーを勤めるラジオ番組で紹介されたことがある。
English: However, given the fact that Mr. Demon Kogure graduated from Waseda University, as well as being well versed in professional Sumo wrestling and Japanese culture, it comes as no surprise that the Emperor knew who Mr. Demon Kogure is.
Japanese: もっとも、デーモンが早稲田大学の出身であり、なおかつ大相撲や日本文化に造詣が深いことを考慮すれば、天皇に名が知られていてもそれほど不思議ではない。
English: As shown in the above-mentioned Mr. Demon Kogure's episode, the present Emperor knows a lot about public entertainments and popular music and the sports.
Japanese: 上記のデーモン小暮閣下の件でも判るように、今上天皇は芸能音楽やスポーツ界の事情にも通じている。
English: When guests from the public entertainment and music world and the sport world are invited to the tea parties held at the Imperial Palace, or to the garden parties held at Akasaka Imperial Garden, the Emperor asks them questions in detail.
Japanese: 芸能音楽やスポーツ界関係者を招いた皇居でのお茶会や赤坂御苑での園遊会が催された際には、出席した各関係者に詳しい質問をする。
English: Therefore, those guests asked by the Emperor frequently make comments to the press that 'I am quite embarrassed because his Majesty had so profound knowledge of me as to make me surprise.'
Japanese: その為、天皇に質問された出席者は「陛下が自分のことについてこちらがドキッとするほどお詳しいので恐縮に堪えません」などと記者団に感想を述べることが多い。
English: When a reporter missed the Emperor while climbing a mountain, who was accompanying the Emperor for collecting data, the reporter tried to find him by calling 'Dad' by mistake.
Japanese: 登山時に天皇の姿が見えなくなった折、取材のため同行した記者が天皇のことをうっかり「おとうちゃん」と呼んだ。
English: Then, by unexpectedly turning up behind the reporter while saying comically 'Dad is here,' the Emperor gave him a startle.
Japanese: 記者の背後に突然現れ「おとうちゃんはここにおりますよ」と冗談めかして言い、驚かせたことがある。
English: During the Imperial visit to Saga Prefecture in 2007, there was an episode that some citizens welcomed the Emperor spontaneously started singing Japan's national anthem.
Japanese: 平成19年（2007年）の佐賀県行幸の際、到着した天皇を出迎えた市民の一部が自然発生的に君が代を歌い始めた。
English: In the past, he used to drive two cars regularly, the Nissan Skyline manufactured by Prince Motor Company (now Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.) and the SOHC manufactured by Daimler Motor Company.
Japanese: プリンス自動車（現：日産自動車）の日産・スカイラインとデイムラーのSOHCの2台を愛用した。
English: By the way, the original company of the Prince Motor Company changed its name to "Prince Motor Company" by adopting the title "prince" for commemorating the investiture of the Crown Prince Akihito.
Japanese: ちなみにプリンス自動車は明仁親王の立太子を記念して社名をプリンスと改めたものである。
English: He has driven various cars such as the Honda Accord, the Honda Legend, and Honda INTEGRA, all of which were manufactured by Honda Motor Co., Ltd., in addition to the above-mentioned cars.
Japanese: このほかホンダ・アコード、ホンダ・レジェンド、本田技研工業のホンダ・インテグラなど運転したことがあるとされる車種は非常に多い。
English: When he went for a drive to Karuizawa, he was attended by Japanese police officers getting on patrol cars.
Japanese: 軽井沢までドライブした際には護衛としてパトロールカーに乗車した日本の警察官が随伴した。