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Japan’s Imperial Lineage in Crisis | San Antonio News
Japan’s parliament just passed a sweeping rewrite of the Imperial House Law, forcing the monarchy to adopt distant male relatives to preserve male-only succession — a move critics call a patriarchal relic that pressures royal women into becoming “childbearing machines.” With Emperor Naruhito’s only child, Princess Aiko, barred from the throne, the line now skips to her uncle and then to her 19-year-old nephew Prince Hisahito — the first male heir in four decades. The law also lets princesses retain their status after marrying commoners, but their spouses and kids remain outside the royal…
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