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On July 17, Japan’s Parliament made major changes in the law related to the succession of the Imperial Family. Under the new law, the royal family will now be able to adopt distant male relatives of 15 years of age or older and rejoin the royal family. Additionally, women from the royal family will no…
In Japan, Sanae Takaichi has created history as the country’s first female Prime Minister, but there is a ban on handing over the throne to a woman in the world’s oldest Japanese dynasty. This approximately 2600 year old dynasty is now facing the crisis of successor. According to existing law, only the emperor’s son can…
Tokyo, Japan: Princess Mikasa, the oldest member of Japan’s royal family and great aunt to the emperor, died aged 101 on Friday in a Tokyo hospital, the Imperial Household Agency said. She had been hospitalised since March after suffering a stroke and pneumonia and had been recuperating there following treatment in intensive care. Born Yuriko…