It’s not an institution if it doesn’t have rules….

Via World Press Review, an interesting account of undercurrents of opposition to changing the Imperial Household Law to allow female emperors or emperors descended through females. The great-grandson of Emperor Meiji wants to reconstitute several lines of descent that were separated from the Imperial House after WWII, instead of allowing women to occupy the throne.

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