ANDRIA HALL, CNN ANCHOR: But first, a look back at this day in CNN history.</s>BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, JUNE 9, 1993) UNIDENTIFIED CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In Japan, cheers for royal newlyweds. Decked out in western style wedding clothes, Crown Prince Naruhito and his new bride parade through Tokyo after their nuptials earlier today.</s>EILEEN O'CONNOR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The country was very, very happy because they saw in Masako: that she was very modern; that she was a woman of high education; that she was a woman who'd been exposed to the West and to western values; and this is a woman who is going to have her own individual opinions. And I think that for younger Japanese women, they were hoping that she would be able to perhaps put forth her opinions, and that if they were listened to, then perhaps that would do something for them as well. Prince Naruhito was so highly educated, and also so exposed to western ideas, that now he was going to perhaps, change the royal family into a more modern royal family, like the one that you've seen in England. And so it was very important, the kind of bride he chose, and also the kind of wedding he had. Would it be this thoroughly modern affair, or would it also be something that was really, really held to tradition? And we saw that while he picked a thoroughly modern bride, he actually stuck, and so did she, very, very pointedly to the ancient traditions that the Japanese royal families always founded themselves in.
CNN 20: Royal Japanese Wedding, June 9, 1993