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Topic: imperial-family

The Imperial Palace in Tokyo

Friday, 7/17, 04:24 AM

Japan revises royal law to secure heirs, but keeps ban on female emperors

Japan's parliament has passed the first substantive revision of its 1947 Imperial House Law, allowing the shrinking royal family to adopt male heirs and letting princesses keep their status after marrying commoners.
But it stops short of the change most Japanese want: letting a woman take the throne.

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