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25-558: From 1931 to 2004, it was the residence of Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu , and his spouse, Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu . On 31 March 2020, the Emperor Emeritus Akihito and the Empress Emerita Michiko moved in. The official name of the residence was then changed to Sento Karigosho ( 仙洞仮御所 , litt. "Temporary Emeritus Imperial Palace") . The residence was the site of the secondary Edo residence of

50-498: A population density of 257 persons per km². The percentage of the population aged over 65 was 32.0%. The total area of the city is 156.60 square kilometres (60.46 sq mi). . The city takes its name from the nearby lake, Lake Kasumigaura . The city has the distinction of having the longest name in Japan (in terms of the number of characters used), together with Ichikikushikino , Kagoshima Prefecture and Tsukubamirai . Much of

75-596: A world tour to Europe and then across the United States so as to strengthen the goodwill and understanding between Japan and those nations. Prince Iesato Tokugawa was the uncle of Prince and Princess Takamatsu. Prince Tokugawa allied with Prince and Princess Takamatsu on many international goodwill projects. Prince and Princess Takamatsu had no children. From the 1930s, Prince Takamatsu expressed grave reservations regarding Japanese aggression in Manchuria and

100-598: Is 13.7 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1311 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 25.8 °C, and lowest in January, at around 2.7 °C. Per Japanese census data, the population of Kasumigaura peaked around the year 2000 and has declined since. The village of Dejima was established within Niihari District on February 11, 1955 through

125-622: The Hosokawa clan . In 1891, it was chosen to be the residence of Masako, Princess Tsune and Fusako, Princess Kane , two daughters of Emperor Meiji . Hirohito resided there as the Crown Prince between 1913 and 1924. It became the residence of his younger brother Nobuhito in 1931, and a building in Tudor style and a Japanese style building were built. They survived the war, but part of the grounds were confiscated. On those grounds were built

150-722: The Imperial Japanese Naval Academy from 1922 to 1924. He received a commission as an ensign on 1 December 1925 and took up duties aboard the battleship Fusō . He was promoted to sub-lieutenant the following year after completing the course of study at the Torpedo School. The prince studied at the Naval Aviation School at Kasumigaura in 1927 and the Naval Gunnery School at Yokosuka in 1930–1931. In 1930, he

175-865: The Japanese Red Cross Society (present-day honorary president is Empress Masako ) and was a major contributor of the NBTHK (Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai or Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Sword). He also officiated the Honorary President of the Preparatory Committee for founding International Christian University (ICU) located in Mitaka, Tokyo . Known for his outgoing nature, Nobuhito

200-609: The Maritime Self-Defense Force . The engagement was canceled due to the backlash. In 1975, the Bungei Shunjū literary magazine published a long interview with Takamatsu in which he told of the warning he made to his brother Hirohito after the Battle of Midway when he realized Japan's defeat was inevitable; "I said, we now have to think about how to end the war. I expressed this left and right". Before

225-485: The Sentō Karigosho ( 仙洞仮御所 , litt. "Temporary Emeritus Imperial Palace") when they moved in on March 31, 2020. Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu ( 高松宮宣仁親王 , Takamatsu-no-miya Nobuhito Shinnō , 3 January 1905 – 3 February 1987) was the third son of Emperor Taishō (Yoshihito) and Empress Teimei (Sadako) and a younger brother of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito). He became heir to

250-651: The Takamatsu-no-miya (formerly Arisugawa-no-miya) , one of the four shinnōke or branches of the imperial family entitled to inherit the Chrysanthemum throne in default of a direct heir. From the mid-1920s until the end of World War II , Prince Takamatsu pursued a career in the Japanese Imperial Navy , eventually rising to the rank of captain. Following the war, the prince became patron or honorary president of various organizations in

275-547: The Ibaraki Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is part of Ibaraki 6th district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan . Kasumigaura has primarily an agricultural economy, with lotus roots , and various fruits as the major cash crops. Aquaculture on Lake Kasumigaura also plays a role. Kasumigaura has eight public elementary schools and three public middle schools operated by

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300-589: The Naval General Staff Office in Tokyo. On 4 February 1930, Prince Takamatsu married Kikuko Tokugawa (1911–2004), the second daughter of Yoshihisa Tokugawa . The bride was a granddaughter of Yoshinobu Tokugawa , the last shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate , and a granddaughter of the late Prince Takehito Arisugawa . Shortly after the wedding, Prince and Princess Takamatsu embarked upon

325-664: The Takamatsu Junior high school and public residences. The western style building was dismantled in 1972, and a new reinforced concrete residence was built in its place. Nobuhito's widow Kikuko resided there until her death in 2004, after which the residence was unused. The Takanawa residence was chosen as a temporary palace for Akihito and Michiko during the refurbishment of the Akasaka Palace (current Togu palace ), which will be their Sentō Imperial Palace ( 仙洞御所 , litt. "Emeritus Imperial Palace") . It became

350-636: The United States. He urged his eldest brother, Emperor Shōwa to seek peace after the Japanese naval defeat at the Battle of Midway in 1942; an intervention which apparently caused a severe rift between the brothers. Kasumigaura, Ibaraki Kasumigaura ( かすみがうら市 , Kasumigaura-shi ) is a city located in Ibaraki Prefecture , Japan . As of 1 July 2020 , the city had an estimated population of 40,254 in 15,839 households and

375-511: The boy's elementary and secondary departments of the Peers' School ( Gakushuin ). When Prince Arisugawa Takehito (1862–1913), the tenth head of the collateral imperial house of Arisugawa-no-miya, died without a male heir, Emperor Taishō placed Prince Nobuhito in the house. The name of the house reverted to the original Takamatsu-no-miya. The new Prince Takamatsu was a fourth cousin, four times removed of Prince Takehito. Prince Takamatsu attended

400-616: The city is within the borders of the Suigō-Tsukuba Quasi-National Park . Kasumigaura is located in central Ibaraki Prefecture, on a peninsula bordered by Lake Kasumigaura on two sides to the southeast and southwest. It is approximately 60 kilometers to the northeast of Tokyo. Ibaraki Prefecture Kasumigaura has a humid continental climate (Köppen Cfa ) characterized by warm summers and cold winters with heavy snowfall. The average annual temperature in Kasumigaura

425-605: The decision to wage war on the United States . After the Battle of Saipan in July 1944, Prince Takamatsu joined his mother Empress Teimei , his uncles Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni , Prince Yasuhiko Asaka , former prime minister Konoe Fumimaro , and other aristocrats, in seeking the ouster of the prime minister Hideki Tojo . After the surrender of Japan , Prince Takamatsu entertained many American officers at his residence during their occupation of Japan . His role in

450-654: The disease in July 1986. His remains were buried at Toshimagaoka Cemetery located in Bunkyō , Tokyo. In 1991 the prince's wife Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu and an aide discovered a twenty-volume diary, written in Prince Takamatsu's own hand between 1921 and 1947. Despite opposition from the entrenched bureaucrats of the Imperial Household Agency , she gave the diary to the magazine Chūōkōron , which published excerpts in 1995. The diary in full

475-606: The fields of international cultural exchange, the arts, sports, and medicine. He is mainly remembered for his philanthropic activities as a member of the Imperial House of Japan . Nobuhito was born at the Aoyama Palace in Tokyo to then-Crown Prince Yoshihito and Crown Princess Sadako. His childhood appellation was Teru-no-miya (Prince Teru). Like his elder brothers, Prince Hirohito and Prince Yasuhito , he attended

500-454: The merger of the villages of Shimootsu, Minami, Ushiwata, Saga, Anshoku and Shishiko. It was elevated to town status on April 1, 1997 and was renamed Kasumigaura. The town of Kasumigaura merged with the neighboring town of Chiyoda on March 28, 2005, becoming the city of Kasumigaura. Kasumigaura has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 16 members. Kasumigaura contributes one member to

525-978: The post-war years was largely ceremonial and he became the honorary president of various charitable, cultural and athletic organizations including the Japan Fine Arts Society, the Denmark-Japan Society, the France-Japan Society, the Tofu Society for the Welfare of Leprosy Patients, the Sericulture Association, the Japan Basketball Association , and the Saise Welfare Society. He also served as a patron of

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550-701: The surrender, he and Prince Konoe had considered asking for the emperor's abdication. The interview implied that the emperor had been a firm supporter of the Greater East Asia War (Japanese name of the Pacific War in those days) while the prince was not. Prince Takamatsu died of lung cancer on 3 February 1987, at the Japanese Red Cross Medical Center ( ja , located in Shibuya , Tokyo). He had been diagnosed with

575-732: Was promoted to lieutenant and attached to the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff in Tokyo. He became a squadron commander of cruiser Takao, two years later and subsequently was reassigned to the Fusō . Prince Takamatsu graduated from the Naval Staff College in 1936, after having been promoted to lieutenant commander on 15 November 1935. He was promoted to the rank of commander on 15 November 1940 and finally to captain on 1 November 1942. From 1936 to 1945, he held various staff positions in

600-748: Was published from 1995 to 1997, in eight volumes. The diary revealed that Prince Takamatsu bitterly opposed the Kwantung Army 's incursions in Manchuria in September 1931, the expansion of the July 1937 Marco Polo Bridge Incident into the Second Sino-Japanese War and in November 1941 warned his brother, Hirohito, that the Imperial Japanese Navy could not sustain hostilities for longer than two years against

625-460: Was said to have "slipped away from his guards and walk freely" before the war and "frequently came without any escort to drinking places in Ginza " after the war. In 1970, Prince Takamatsu became the first member of the imperial family to visit South Korea after Japan's colonial rule over Korea ended in 1945. He garnered criticism in 1973 when it was announced that he would privately visit vessels of

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