It’s not every day a Belmont High graduate becomes a princess or an empress. Masako Owada, a member of the BHS class of 1981, married Japan’s Crown Prince Naruhito, heir to Japan’s ancient ...

Born in Tokyo in 1963, Masako Owada is the daughter of a diplomat, and spent her early childhood in Moscow and New York. She was educated at Oxford and Harvard, and worked as a diplomat before ...

Masako Owada in the Belmont High School yearbook (Photo credit: Boston Public Library) "I came here at the beginning of the junior year and had a wonderful time," Owada writes.

Masako Owada, a member of the Class of ’81, took on the title of Empress Masako when her husband became the 126th emperor of Japan on Wednesday.

When Masako Owada, a vivacious up-and-coming foreign diplomat, married Crown Prince Naruhito of Japan in 1993, the country watched in fascination. The new royal couple carried an international ...

Empress Masako, born as the commoner Masako Owada, is a Japanese diplomat who married Crown Prince Naruhito in 1993, becoming Crown Princess and then Empress in May 2019.

Strangers are knocking at the door of John Owens’ secluded home in Belmont, Mass., searching for the house across the street where Masako Owada once slept.They are calling Foster Wright, the ...

Strangers are knocking at the door to John Owens’ secluded home, searching for the house across the street where Masako Owada once slept.They are calling Foster Wright, the principal of Belmont ...

Empress Masako, born as the commoner Masako Owada, is a Japanese diplomat who married Crown Prince Naruhito in 1993, becoming Crown Princess and then Empress in May 2019. Masako's life story is ...

Masako Owada, a member of the Class of ’81, took on the title of Empress Masako Wednesday when her husband, Naruhito, became the 126th emperor of Japan.