Princess Mako will study at the University of Edinburgh from September, the Asahi Shimbun reported on 3 June.
The 20-year-old eldest daughter of Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko, and granddaughter of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, is a junior at International Christian University in Tokyo and is likely to study fine arts in Scotland.
She has studied English in Ireland for about a month and her father studied at the University of Oxford.
