Japanese princess misses school after being bullied

Published: 10:48AM GMT 05 March 2010

Japan"s Princess Aiko, daughter of Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako Photo: AP

The headlines supposing a singular glance in to the in isolation affairs of the world"s oldest patrimonial monarchy, that customarily abides by strict, grave protocols and is tight-lipped about personal matters.

The eight-year-old princess complained of a go through ache and voiced low anxiety, and has not attended propagandize given entrance home early on Tuesday, the orator for the Imperial Household Agency said.

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An review by the group and the propagandize suggested that she and multiform alternative students had suffered "violent things" from boys in an additional class, the orator said.

Aiko is the daughter of Crown Prince Naruhito, son of the emperor, and Princess Masako. She attends the chosen Gakushuin Primary School in Tokyo"s executive Shinjuku district. The orator declined to criticism on the greeting of her relatives or when she would lapse to school.

Naruhito is to revisit Africa starting Saturday but will not be accompanied by Masako, who hasn"t attended central duties for multiform years. She has prolonged suffered from a shaken commotion attributed to the difficulties of adjusting to house hold up and the vigour to bear a son.

After pang a premature bieing born in 1999, Masako gave bieing born to Aiko in 2001. The miss of a masculine successor fanned a transformation to shift the law to concede Aiko to attain her father.

The period predicament was averted when Naruhito"s younger brother, Prince Akishino, and his mother Princess Kiko had a baby child in 2006. The boy, Hisahito, is right away third in line to the throne.