Education
Princess Yōko attended the prestigious Gakushuin School for her primary, junior high, and high school education. The Princess is a graduate of the Gakushuin Women"s College, Department of Foreign Relations.
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Princess Yoko Mikasa
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Career
Education She had subsequently been active in various volunteer activities, especially with the Japanese Red Cross Society, since December 2006 to November 2012. She was inaugurated as the Patron of the International association for Universal Design (IAUD) from August 2013. She took over the chair of the president from her father, Prince Tomohito.
She was inaugurated as the Patron of the International association for Universal Design from August 2013 and also she was inaugurated as the President of the Social Welfare Organization Yuai Jyuji kai from January 2014.
Public appearances A practitioner of the traditional Japanese martial art of kendō from an early age, the princess was selected to participate in exhibition tournaments in France and Germany in 2005, as well as the Aichi World’s fair held the same year. In July 2006, Princess Yōko attended the national convention Kendo Housewives.
Prince Tomohito"s death On 6 June 2012, Prince Tomohito died from multiple organ failure. In June 2013, the Imperial Household Agency said it has reduced the number of households in the Imperial family by one, following the passing of Prince Tomohito a year ago.
The household led by the late Prince has been integrated into the one led Prince Mikasa.
The step was applied retroactively from 6 June last year, the day of the Prince’s demise. As a result, the number of households in the Imperial family dropped to five, excluding those led by Emperor Akihito and Crown Prince Naruhito. Yōko is styled as "Her Imperial Highness Princess Yōko of Mikasa".
Membership
In October 2003, she became an adult member of the Imperial Family and started attending official ceremonies and events in Japan with the other members of the Imperial Family, including garden parties and New Year"s ceremonies. His funeral ceremony, called "Renso no Gi," was held at the Toshimagaoka Imperial Cemetery in Bunkyo Ward and was attended by Princess Yōko and other members of the Imperial Family. The household integration will not change the living arrangements of the three former members of the late Prince’s household or the amount of living expenses they receive from state coffers, agency officials said.
