Japan's Parliament revised the Imperial House Law to cement male-only succession, blocking Princess Aiko from inheriting the ...

There are only three people in line to inherit Japan's Chrysanthemum Throne, and one of them is 90 years old. All three of ...

A new law passed in Japan in July 2026 is updating the line of succession: It allows the royals to adopt distant male ...

Japan’s parliament has enacted a historic revision to the 19th-century Imperial House Law by insisting only paternal-lineage ...

Only male descendants in the male line are eligible to inherit the throne; now, the Imperial Family can adopt distant male ...

Japan's parliament has amended the Imperial Household Law to address the shortage of heirs. Male descendants of former noble ...

Japan may have its first ever female prime minister, but her government’s attempts to avoid a royal succession crisis are ...

A popular princess drives support for having a female Japanese Emperor. But the country's first female prime minister opposes ...

Kazutoshi Hando and Yukinobu Hoshino, trans. from the Japanese by Makiko Itoh. Tuttle, $19.99 trade paper (480p) ISBN 978-4-8053-1779-2 Hando and Hoshino’s North American debut, an in-depth manga ...

Japan's royal succession crisis deepens as a scholar calls the ban on female emperors 'plainly misogyny' while the imperial ...