JAPAN'S PRINCESS KIKO GIVES BIRTH TO BOY
An extra edition of newspapers is distributed in major cities of Japan, announcing Princess Kiko giving birth to a royal baby boy in a Tokyo hospital early morning on September 6, 2006. The boy is the first male born in Japan's Royal Family since the baby's father, Prince Akishino, was born 41 years ago. (UPI Photo/Keizo Mori)
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TOKYO, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Speculation ran high across Japan Monday that Princess Kiko will have a male heir to the throne by a Caesarean section this week. Officials with the Imperial Household Agency have repeatedly said no one knows the gender of the child the princess is carryi