Prince Akishino and his eldest son Hisahito visited the research facilities of the Faculty of Agriculture at a university in Tokyo.
Prince Akishino and Prince Hisahito visited Tamagawa University in Machida City, Tokyo on the morning of the 6th.
At the Faculty of Agriculture's facilities, research is being conducted on cultivating seafood in a closed environment such as indoor aquariums for sustainable food production. In front of the 10 aquariums in which they live, they were asked questions about food and other matters.
Hisahito, who has been interested in insects and their habitat since childhood, is in his third year of high school and is aiming to enter a university where he can study the field of "natural history" such as the natural environment and the ecology of insects, and is interested in insect science. When we moved to the laboratory and the professor in charge explained the difference between bee nests and wasp nests, he held a wasp nest in his hand and said, ``It's made up of several layers. It's really big.'' Ta.
Afterwards, the two of them also visited the ``Biotope,'' a space on campus where living things live, and for lunch, they were served abalone farmed on campus grilled in butter and soy sauce and cooked rice.