Interesting......
Jan. 20th, 2006 11:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundAnd under the current circumstances, not surprising.
Japan bill to let women on throne (BBC News)
"Japan's PM Junichiro Koizumi has pledged to submit a bill to parliament letting women ascend to the throne.
In an annual keynote speech, he said the move was needed "in order that the imperial throne be continued into the future in a stable manner".
Under existing rules only men are allowed to become emperors, but no boys have been born into the imperial family for 40 years."
Japan bill to let women on throne (BBC News)
"Japan's PM Junichiro Koizumi has pledged to submit a bill to parliament letting women ascend to the throne.
In an annual keynote speech, he said the move was needed "in order that the imperial throne be continued into the future in a stable manner".
Under existing rules only men are allowed to become emperors, but no boys have been born into the imperial family for 40 years."
