Tsuneharu Takeda

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Tsuneharu Takeda (b 3 August 1944) is the Japanese ambassador accredited to the republic of Bulgaria and chief of the embassy at Sofia, Bulgaria.

His Excellency, ambassador Tsuneharu Takeda was born in 1944 as His Imperial Highness, prince Takeda-no-Fushimi-miya Tsuneharu-o, second son of their imperial highnesses, prince Takeda-no-miya Tsuneyoshi ō (b at Tokyo 3 March 1909, d at Tokyo 12 May 1992), second head of the Miyake house of Takeda, and his wife princess Mitsuko, born princess Mitsuko Sanjo-no-Fujiwara (b 6 November 1915), the youngest daughter of a Japanese peer, Kiteru Fujiwara-no-Sanjo, the Duke of Sanjo.

Upon the enforcement of the new, American-dictated Imperial Household Law, on 14 October 1947, the then three-year-old imperial prince Tsuneharu lost his membership in the immediate Imperial 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 the Meiji emperor.