- Tsuneharu Takeda
Tsuneharu Takeda (b 3 August 1944) is the
Japan ese ambassador accredited to the republic ofBulgaria and chief of the embassy atSofia, Bulgaria .His Excellency,
ambassador Tsuneharu Takeda was born in 1944 as HisImperial Highness ,prince Takeda-no-Fushimi-miya Tsuneharu-o, second son of their imperial highnesses, prince Takeda-no-miyaTsuneyoshi ō (b atTokyo 3 March 1909, d at Tokyo 12 May 1992), second head of theMiyake house of Takeda , and his wife princess Mitsuko, born princess Mitsuko Sanjo-no-Fujiwara (b 6 November 1915), the youngest daughter of a Japanesepeer , KiteruFujiwara-no -Sanjo, the Duke ofSanjo .Upon the enforcement of the new, American-dictated
Imperial Household Law , on 14 October 1947, the then three-year-oldimperial prince Tsuneharu lost his membership in the immediateImperial Family of Japan and became commoner, Mr Tsuneharu Takeda.Ambassador Takeda is second cousin of
Emperor Akihito , through his paternal grandmother, imperial princess Masako naishinno,Duchess of Tsune , sixth (but eldest surviving) daughter of theMeiji emperor .* in Bulgarian: [http://www.bg.emb-japan.go.jp/cgi-bin/page.cgi?p=embassy/embassador_speech/index&l=bg Speech of the Ambassador Takeda]
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