Friday July 11, 2008 at 9:26
Emperor publishes study on tanuki crap
Yep, Emperor Akihito has been sifting tanuki poop from the Palace grounds and analysing it.
The last few male generations of the Japanese royal family seem to have shared a scholarly bent; Hirohito had a passion for marine biology, Akihito had apparently published some 30 papers on gobies prior to his foray into tanuki excrement, and Naruhito famously studied inland waterways (principally the Thames) at Oxford.
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