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Japan revises law on royals, keeps blocking women from throne
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Anthony Kuhn
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Japan's parliament has passed legislation to address the shrinking imperial family, but the law continues to bar women from inheriting the throne. Critics argue the move is a deliberate attempt to maintain male-only succession.
Japan's upper house of parliament has voted to pass controversial revisions to a law governing who can inherit the throne in the world's oldest continuous hereditary monarchy, just days after the lower house of parliament voted it through.
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