Prince Tomohito enters hospital for alcoholism treatment

Friday 21st August, 07:09 AM JST

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smithinjapan at 12:34 PM JST - 21st August

...for the fifteenth time.
TheGeneral at 12:59 PM JST - 21st August

(or whatever you call killing off emperors. Empricide? Imprecide?)

You call it a good start toward joining other countries in the 21st century.
sunny117 at 01:21 PM JST - 21st August

Maybe......its really LONELY at the TOP
koneko22 at 01:53 PM JST - 21st August

I think he should be sent to a rehab facility....that deals with addictions...not the Imperial Household Hospital....One month stays....who babysits ??? Imperial Family should be setting an example....for treatment of alcoholism...
thedeath at 02:01 PM JST - 21st August

poor prince tomohito.
herefornow at 02:13 PM JST - 21st August

sk4ek -- good post. Given that he's being treated at the Imperial Household Hospital, it is almost certain that he is not getting any form of group therapy sessions, since he's possibly the only patient in the whole place. Which furthers, koneko22's post. Alchoholism is treated much like mental illness here -- denial.
soothsayer at 03:21 PM JST - 21st August

and we get the privilege of paying taxes to support his alcoholism..wonderful

Actually, we get the privilege of paying taxes to support all alcoholics in this country. And anyone else with a medical condition.
blvtzpk at 04:38 PM JST - 21st August

Tough love needed - give him a blue plastic sheet and and old shopping cart and let him be.
stirfry at 05:45 PM JST - 21st August

Maybe......its really LONELY at the TOP

he's nowhere near the top...maybe that's why he's a lush
FightingViking at 06:24 PM JST - 21st August

I've never met a funnier, more "down to earth" person, who was not afraid to joke with me, a "gaijin" - 30 years ago - while ski-ing together near Nozawa-onsen. I was so sorry when I first heard he had cancer. However, as my mother would say (when I told her she should stop smoking): "If you can't do something you enjoy in life, then it's not worth living anyway"... GAMBATTE Mikasa-no-Miya Sama ! Thank you for our funny and interesting conversations! The photo of us together is still hanging on the wall in our living-room.
usaexpat at 11:32 PM JST - 21st August

Guess the treatments aren't working very well. Maybe he should try the beer an hour taper down routine and try to dry out on his own.
bdaniel08 at 10:07 AM JST - 22nd August

herefornow

Given that he's being treated at the Imperial Household Hospital, it is almost certain that he is not getting any form of group therapy sessions, since he's possibly the only patient in the whole place. Which furthers, koneko22's post. Alchoholism is treated much like mental illness here -- denial.

Thats not completly true !

"He" has been in Kurihama National Hospital (in Kanagawa prefecture) a little bit after myself (almost 3 years ago) and had gone at that time thru some medecine AND a lot of group therapy sessions...Kurihama hospital is said to have taken model from England hospital for alcoolism and has been created around 20 years ago. So Japan from that moment is trying to treated that addiction like another one not like a mental illness like before...there was more than300 hundreds "patients" at the time i was there, 10% women and 90% men. "He" has "stayed " there for 1 month only and have not succeed as we see he is trying once more to stop his addiction. For myself i have been in that hospital for 6 weeks and havent drink a gram of alcool for 2 years and 7 months now.

I am only lucky i think and have a bit more of will.
guest at 01:08 PM JST - 22nd August

alcoholism is a tough one, and being a prince in Japan might not be a cake walk. Its lonely at the top, stay strong
JackDorff at 03:31 PM JST - 22nd August

He doesn`t seem to have a full time job. So does he rack this up on Shakai Hoken or Kokumin Hoken?
societymike at 09:04 AM JST - 24th August

Drinking too much "Crown Royal"?