ViewusGlobal on MSN2mon
No Women on the Throne: Japan Says ‘No’ to UN’s Call for Gender Equality in Royal Succession
Under current law, female members of the Japanese imperial family lose their royal status upon marriage and are excluded from ...
Hosted on MSN7mon
Japan's monarchy under threat from 'male only' succession rules
Princess Aiko, the 22-year-old daughter of Emperor Naruhito, faces a life wedded to public duty - but, as current laws stand, she'll never be able to take to the country's Chrysanthemum Throne.
THE WEEK8mon
Japan's succession drama puts future of world's oldest monarchy in doubt
Under the Imperial Household Law of 1947, succession is limited to male heirs on the emperor's father's side (i.e. down the paternal line). Naruhito, the grandson of Japan's longest reigning ...
Japanese emperor and his family greet flag-waving crowd at the palace for New Year's
Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family waved from a balcony window to throngs of New Year’s well-wishers, some shouting, ...
scmp.com1mon
The Lens: Japan urged to modernise monarchy with female succession to promote gender equality
The Japanese emperor is considered a symbol ... The Imperial Household Law explicitly excludes princesses from the line of succession, restricting their right to become monarchs.
朝日新聞社2y
Parties split on imperial throne succession as report submitted
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has handed off the hot potato issue of imperial succession ... their royal status even after marriage; the other would allow males of the paternal line of the imperial ...
朝日新聞社12d
Touchy issues avoided in panel talks about succession
One idea is to allow female members to retain their royal ... succession and revise the Imperial House Law, according to experts. Hajime Sebata, an associate professor of modern Japanese political ...