Japanese Emperor Naruhito is well-prepared and temperamentally suited to the role he assumed Wednesday after his father's abdication, said a friend from his time at the University of Oxford, reflecting on his early impressions of the royal figure then known as Prince Hiro."The Japanese people are fortunate they have him as the emperor, that he represents Japan," said Keith George, 57, an American lawyer from Charleston, West Virginia, who studied at Oxford in England for the same two years in the 1980s as Emperor Naruhito."Monarchies in some countries have scandals and erode moral standards…READ FULL ARTICLE
