He came out this morning at 8:27a.m. as their third child of Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko.The birthrate in this coutry is as low as 1.25 as of 2005. Given this low rate, the royal couple is pretty productive. Good job.
You know, this delivery is very special for the Japanese due to the succession problem. Under the current imperial rule, only boy can take the throne. The royal family, however, had not been blessed with male baby for forty years. You may speculate that Japanese people was surprised and pleased at the male birth. Yes, pleased but not necessarily surprised. While the gender of the baby, technically, had been strictly secret until the baby was born, there was an atmosphere on the street that everyone had assumed that the child would be a boy. Indeed, even before the actual birth, tabloids treated the baby issue as if they had known the sex. So I am guessing that many Japanese, including myself, thought ''As I expected'' when hearing about the gender this morning.
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