Reuters' Pictures of the year 2006: Japan's newborn Prince Hisahito sleeps in the arms of his mother, Princess Kiko, as they leave a Tokyo hospital September 15, 2006. Prince Hisahito is the first boy to be born into Japan's imperial family in nearly 41 years. [Reuters]

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