KNIVES were planted on the school desk of a 12-year-old Japanese prince in an apparently sinister threat against the country's royal family on Friday.
Police in Tokyo are hunting for a suspect who allegedly trespassed Prince Hisahito's school posing as a construction worker by wearing a helmet and blue overalls.AP:Associated PressHisahito - the grandson of Emperor Akihito - will become second-in-line to Japan's throne next week after his elderly grandfather's planned abdication.
The young prince was in another part of Ochanomizu University Junior High School when the blades - painted pink and suspected from his desk on a stick - were placed.The prince is usually guarded by police officers - but they do not accompany him inside school classrooms, according to local media. Prince Hisahito’s uncle, Crown Prince Naruhito, is set to take over from Emporer Akihito Tuesday - after 30 years on the Chrysanthemum throne.Stefanie Sherk's cause of death revealed after she passed away at 43ROOM WITH A VIEWOne dead and three injured after gunman, 19, opens fire inside synagogueFLAMING HELLThe emperor, revered as a god during World War II, now holds no political power and serves as a national symbol.The Metropolitan Police Department and the school declined to comment.
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