That would be the ideal--get the family out of Tokyo and back to Kyoto.

These are vexed issues, but I feel that they should be discussed. The games of the Imperial Household Agency are not healthy, and they will always be used as a game by politicians.

It's wrong that the Imperial Household Agency controls archives of the Showa Era and denies Japanese people access to imperial documents that could shed light on the political process during the Showa Era. That process led to disaster, and Japanese people will be constantly assessing this. They need all the information and all the data they can possibly get. Bureaucratic habits of secrecy aren't going to help the situation.

The value of a loving family cannot be understated.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries - the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

There is no other human activity that depends so much on chance as love.