Under the Imperial Household Law of 1947, succession is limited to male heirs on the emperor's father's side (i.e. down the paternal line). Naruhito, the grandson of Japan's longest reigning ...

If the young Prince Hisahito does not have a male child, the line of succession will be broken - prompting some debate about changing the rules, with polls showing the Japanese public broadly ...

Therefore, the report didn’t explore the crucial issue of how Japan can maintain stable imperial succession in the future ... only a male from the paternal line of the family should inherit ...

The Japanese emperor is considered a symbol ... The Imperial Household Law explicitly excludes princesses from the line of succession, restricting their right to become monarchs.

The 22-year-old princess is not in line of succession as Japanese law allows only men to ascend to the throne. Japan has the oldest continuing hereditary monarchy in the world. In a statement ...

An expert government panel recommended that female members of the imperial household retain their royal status regardless of marriage but avoided the key question of succession. In its final ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family waved from a balcony window to throngs of New Year’s well-wishers, some shouting, “Banzai,” which means “long live,” while others waved small paper Japanese ...