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Japan revises law to ensure supply of (male) heirs to the imperial throne
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Anthony Kuhn
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Japan's parliament has passed revisions to the Imperial House Law to address the dwindling number of imperial family members. While the law allows princesses to retain royal status after marriage and permits the adoption of male relatives, it continues to bar women from inheriting the throne.
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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