Kurumi Mori

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226 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 14 Aug

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Global News Podcast · UK's Andy Burnham confirmed as new Labour leader · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

There are really two major changes with this bill.

The first is that women in the imperial family will no longer automatically lose their royal status after they marry a commoner.

And we saw that happen a few years ago.

So then they can keep carrying out official duties as imperial family members.

And then the second major change now allows the imperial family to adopt male descendants from 11 former imperial branches.

They were removed from the family after World War II.

So the adopted members won't inherit the throne themselves, but the male descendants of these adopted members will be eligible.

But we have to point out the key issue here that remains quite untouched in this revision.

It's that Princess Aiko, the current emperor's only child, still, as a woman, she cannot inherit the throne.

So this really leaves the ban on female succession and having an empress unchanged.

Well, it really helps address one immediate problem, but not the bigger one that we're all talking about here on the ground.

The imperial family has been shrinking for a while now, for decades, and there are currently only three men currently eligible to inherit the throne, and two of them are over 60 years old.

So the revised law does help expand the number of family members that can carry out official duties and

make those public appearances, but it doesn't solve the longer-term succession issue.

So unless the law really changes to allow a woman to take on the throne or the line of eligible male heirs expands, those questions about the monarchy's future, they're really likely to continue.

Yeah, well, we had a look at a number of public opinion polls over many years, and they've consistently shown quite strong majority support for allowing a woman to become emperor.

And it's often around 70 to 80 percent of people are in favor of having a woman as empress.

Princess Aiko, the emperor's current only child, she's also quite popular among

with the public.

But conservative politicians are saying that they want to maintain this unbroken male line.

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