Japan moves to allow

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Japan moves to allow
princess to take throne
News report says legal change
in response to succession crisis
Princess Aiko, 3, will be next in line to the Chrysanthemum Throne after her father, Crown Prince Naruhito, under legal changes being drafted by the government, a news agency reported Monday.
The Associated Press
Updated: 2:59 p.m. ET Feb. 21, 2005TOKYO - Japan will prepare for a reigning empress for the first time in more than 200 years as the government drafts legal changes allowing female succession, a news agency reported Monday.



Japan’s royals are facing their most serious succession crisis in centuries. The current law bars women from ascending the Chrysanthemum Throne and no boy has been born to the imperial family since the 1960s.

Kyodo News quoted an unnamed government official as saying “Princess Aiko will go next” after her father, Crown Prince Naruhito, in line for the throne. The report gave no other details, and there was no answer late Monday the prime minister’s office.


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I think she will make a lovely Empress someday!!!