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  <title><![CDATA[Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne]]></title>
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  <default-description>The tragic true story of Japan's Crown Princess-with a new afterword by the author.

It's the fantasy of many young women: marry a handsome prince, move into a luxurious palace, and live happily ever after. But that's not how it turned out for Masako Owada. Ben Hills's fascinating portrait of Princess Masako and the Chrysanthemum Throne draws on research in Tokyo and rural Japan, at Oxford and Harvard, and from more than sixty interviews with Japanese, American, British, and Australian sources-many of whom have never spoken publicly before-shedding light on the royal family's darkest secrets, secrets that can never be openly discussed in Japan because of the reverence in which the emperor and his family are held. But most of all, this is a story about a love affair that went tragically wrong.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-day type="integer">28</original-publication-day>
  <original-publication-month type="integer">12</original-publication-month>
  <original-publication-year type="integer">2006</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne</original-title>
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  <average_rating><![CDATA[2.98]]></average_rating>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ben Hills]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting, especially if you don't know much about Japan's imperial family. Certainly, Masako has a sad story that is generally kept hush-hush. But I had a lot of problems with it. First, the author presents a lot of his own assumptions as fact, saying things like, &quot;We can surely assume he wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71378954">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Dec 18 10:24:44 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 22 15:08:09 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I rate this book 2 stars for content, 3 stars for interest.  The book is about Crown Princess Masako, married to Crown Prince Naruhito.  Much of the information in this book was acquired second hand and at times has a somewhat loose tabloid feel to it.  This is understandable since it’s virtually ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40386393">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42378186">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jan 15 13:00:13 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting look inside the Japanese Royal Palace &amp; the Japanese Crown Princess Masako who married into the family 16 years ago.  The Japanese Royals lives are lived very secretively not only from the media, but also from the people of Japan.  They don't live lives anything like the ones lived by...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42378186">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53332706">
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Apr 23 09:34:45 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Such a sad story.  Every little girl wants to be a princess, and sometimes wishes come true and then you wish they hadn't.  According to this biography, Masako Oweda gave up everything to marry the Crown Prince of Japan and now lives her life in a gilded cage.  She can't go out shopping, or travel o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53332706">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48495951">
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Mar 07 06:40:29 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Princess Masako has always been my own personal hero. She might never know me and I will never know her in person. But she is somehow influential to my life<br/><br/>Reading this book about her, i feel like I know her a little better. Although my main concern remains how this book is written. None o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48495951">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28664415">
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Princess Masako's story is an inherently interesting one.  She speaks multiple languages fluently, has lived all around the world, was educated at Harvard, Oxford, and Tokyo Universities, and had an extremely prestigious career before she gave it all up and married Naruhito, the crown prince of Japa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28664415">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21375325">
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  <read_at>Tue May 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book that I've looked at countless times at airport bookstores, but have never actually bought. (Hurrah for libraries!) I'm glad I've read it, but also (I think) glad I didn't buy it. Some of the other reviews on Good Reads talk about the padding in this book, but I actually found the digr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21375325">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8774527">
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[the book is was written in a style suited for 'foreigners' who are interested in the last reigning imperial family of Japan. The society of Japan is extremely different: very rigid, conservative, encroaching even on one's personal freedom; so I chose to read this book with a very open mind.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8774527">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5576029">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 15 07:14:11 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[When Princess Masako finally decided to accept Prince Hironomiya's proposal back in early 90's, we (I mean, all of my feminist friends and I) were in shock.  She was a successful, beautiful, intelligent Japanese woman who was on her career track to make significant contributions to the Japanese soci...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5576029">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21792490">
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  <read_at>Sun May 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not knowing a lot of the royal family in Japan, this book introduced Pricess Masako and her sad daily life.  The term sad is loosly used as she lives in a palace with financial stability!  However, for a Harvard education international diplomat to become trapped in the confines of a secluded palace ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21792490">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45906104">
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    <name><![CDATA[Efrina]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[buku ini , membuat aqkyu berfikir lbh baik jadi warga biasa daripada jd anggota kerajaaan or bangsawan lah ... dimana masako menjadi wanita terikat bahkan dihapuskan dari keluarganya  en dipaksa untuk hamil &amp; melahirkaan putra mahkota ]]></body>
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    <review id="15172034">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the auto-biography of Japan's current Princess.  It is a sad story of women's place in Japanese culture.  I learned a great deal about women's roles in Japan and I find the bi-polar personality of this country and culture to be fascinating.  On the one hand, there is so much to admire in Jap...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15172034">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48956136">
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    <body><![CDATA[buku kisah tentang princess masako karya ben hills ini dilarang terbit di jepang..karena mungkin agak menyinggung kerajaan jepangnya sendiri..<br/><br/>buku ni sbenernya bagus..cuma gw agak meragukan beberapa ceritanya..karena yang menulis bukan buku princess masako..tapi ben hills..seorang jurnal...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48956136">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52167498">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reads like a tabloid magazine, but gives a good overview of the Princess and how she came to be. She really is the poor nightingale in a gilded cage.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm glad I bought this book second hand. While interesting for its insights into Japanese culture (and it has a lot of them) the author can't really do more than provide conjecture from individuals now much removed from contact with the princess. Much of his information about Prince Naruhito comes f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38173180">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a must-read if you're at all interested in the Japanese Royal family. The book talks not only of Princess Masako but also of Prince Naruhito, and how they struggle almost nonstop against the Imperial Household Agency which controls their every move from behind closed doors. Yet, while f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20690336">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not terribly well written and shamelessly padded, but still just about the only information that's available on the life of Masako Owada, the gifted economist educated at Harvard and Oxford who sacrificed herself and married into the Japaense Imperial family. She was not even allowed to take her dog...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4058843">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[pretty much interesting trivia surrounding the Princess.  Kind of useless but still interesting nevertheless. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Horrifying.  To begin, I hated the writing style.  Every adjective is opinionated.  Those weren't straight facts, they were opinionated.  It was described to me as a 'page turner.'  I don't think so.  Page turning in the sense that I wanted only to get through it, and get on with my life.  This pote...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51337496">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is not a great book by any imagination--and it was full of the author's imagination with little fact to back it up.  It's true that no one can get close enough to the Japanese royalty to get any real facts and his guesses seemed reasonable, it still bothered me that the author esteemed his own ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20221661">more...</a>]]></body>
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