Fushimi Hiroaki

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His Imperial Highness Prince Fushimi Hiroaki (伏見宮 博明王, Fushimi-no-miya Hiroaki-ō^?) of Japan (born 26 January 1932) was the only son of Prince Fushimi Hiroyoshi (1900-1937) and heir apparent to the Fushimi-no-miya shinnōke branch of the Imperial Family).

Fushimi Hiroaki was born in Tokyo, and educated at the Gakushuin. His father, Prince Fushimi Hiroyoshi, a naval commander, sustained mortal wounds in the opening stages of the Battle of Shanghai in 1937. Prince Hiroaki, therefore, became the twenty-fourth head of the Fushimi-no-miya upon the death of grandfather, Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu, on 16 August 1946.

With the abolition of the collateral branches of the Imperial household by the American occupation authorities after the end of the Pacific War, he became a commoner on 14 October 1947. He later traveled to the United States and attended Centre College in Kentucky. He returned to Japan to pursue a career with Mobil Oil.

His late wife, the former Yoshikawa Tokiko, was the daughter of the president of Yoshikawa Optical Instruments. He has three daughters: Masako (born 1964), Nobuko (born 1961), and Akiko (born 1959).