Japanese Monarchy: Articles from 2006-2008

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Wombat

January 07, 2006, 10:00:11 AM
A house divided~ Sydney Morning Herald

QuoteConcubines, divorce and extended family trees - all have been suggested to avoid putting a female on the Chrysanthemum Throne
<_<

Wombat

#1
January 07, 2006, 10:02:18 AM
Royal allure:Japanese love brand-name products, and nothing has a greater cachet than the imperial family ~ Asahi

QuoteMao Komuro was searching an Internet bookshop looking for some bedtime reading for her 18-month-old daughter when a blurb stopped her in her tracks. "Crown Princess Masako's favorite," trumpeted the entry for "Goodnight Moon," by U.S. children's writer Margaret Wise Brown.

Jenee

#2
January 19, 2006, 02:38:35 AM
:rolleyes:
"It does not do to dwell on dreams, and forget to live" -Dumbledore

Lila the Flirt

#3
January 19, 2006, 03:08:12 AM
Sheesh. They need to keep up with the times.  :mellow:


Flirt's the name, flirtin's my game :lila:

Jenee

#4
January 19, 2006, 03:33:52 AM
so does the british royal family
"It does not do to dwell on dreams, and forget to live" -Dumbledore

Jenee

#5
January 23, 2006, 03:41:12 AM
Mainichi Daily News

Quote"Princess Masako was expected to return to the palace as soon as Princess Aiko calmed down," a palace source relates. "But a miscommunication occurred."

Expecting Crown Princess Masako to be back at any moment, the family delayed the start of the meal. But with the timing of the formal dinner thrown askew, the chefs and servants at the palace were thrown into a tizzy.

"It does not do to dwell on dreams, and forget to live" -Dumbledore

Jenee

#6
January 23, 2006, 02:03:13 PM
Monsters and Critics

QuoteJapanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi plans to submit a bill paving the way for the return of the first empress in 236 years. Mr. Koizumi wants to change the 1947 Imperial Household Law to allow Crown Prince Naruhito's daughter, Aiko, to assume the throne.


Its about time  <_<
"It does not do to dwell on dreams, and forget to live" -Dumbledore

Wombat

#7
January 24, 2006, 11:37:36 PM
Cracking The Boy's Club: Japan's Royal Dilemna ~ ABC

QuoteJapan Ponders Letting Women Rule, or Using Concubines To Insure a Future Emperor

Jenee

#8
January 26, 2006, 04:29:43 PM
concubines? oh dear god... why on earth are men so afraid of women in power?
"It does not do to dwell on dreams, and forget to live" -Dumbledore

Windsor

#9
January 29, 2006, 09:12:15 PM
Japanese foreign minister Taro Aso has called for Emperor Akihito to visit a controversial war shrine - a move that could enrage China and South Korea.


BBC

Jenee

#10
February 02, 2006, 02:21:43 PM
The Scotsman

QuoteDOZENS of conservative MPs yesterday attacked moves to allow a woman to take the Japanese throne, with one leading opponent warning that the only daughter of the crown prince could marry "a blue-eyed foreigner".
"It does not do to dwell on dreams, and forget to live" -Dumbledore

Jenee

#11
February 02, 2006, 02:25:17 PM
Japanese rally against female imperial succession

QuoteTOKYO: More than 1,000 people met in Tokyo yesterday to protest at a proposed law change that would allow women and their children to inherit Japan's Chrysanthemum throne.

Mainichi Daily News

QuoteDozens of conservative lawmakers and their supporters on Wednesday attacked a proposal to let a woman take the Imperial Throne, warning the move would threaten a centuries-old tradition -- and could even allow foreign blood into the Imperial line.

The lawmakers, led by former Trade Minister Takeo Hiranuma, are fighting a law being drafted by the government to avert a succession crisis in the Imperial Family by allowing reigning Empresses. The 1947 Imperial Household Law allows only men on the throne, and no woman has reigned in more than 200 years.

Lawmakers decries plan to let women ascend Japanese throne

QuoteThe imperial family has not produced a male heir since the 1960s, and public support has been growing for a change in the law to allow Princess Aiko, the daughter and only child of Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako, to ascend the throne.

"It does not do to dwell on dreams, and forget to live" -Dumbledore

Wombat

#12
February 03, 2006, 03:44:04 AM
Japan's Prince Naruhito Loves James Bond films ~ Female First

QuoteJapan's Crown Prince Naruhito has revealed a love of James Bond films, pub crawls and vinegar-drenched fish and chips wrapped in newspaper

Wombat

#13
February 03, 2006, 05:41:20 AM
Rally against Japan royals change  ~ BBC

QuoteAbout 40 Japanese lawmakers have joined a rally in Tokyo to protest against government plans to allow women to ascend to the throne.

Wombat

#15
February 04, 2006, 04:47:02 AM
Without an heir, is divorce in the air for sad princess?  ~ Independent

QuotePrincess Masako is so weighed down by the demands of imperial life that she wants a divorce, according to the Japanese press, as opposition grows against plans to allow her child, Princess Aiko, to sit on the Chrysanthemum Throne.
These people are making me angry :rant:

HM Queen Cheryl

#16
February 04, 2006, 05:14:46 PM
They're royal family wont last long. It's to much pressure to put on a woman to birth a male. It's the male genes that decide the sex of the baby so it's their fault not hers.
:rolleyes:

Lila the Flirt

#18
February 05, 2006, 11:54:57 AM
Why can't they just leave her alone.

Cheryl ~ It will last. It's lasted for hundreds of years. They'll get past this when the government has enough sense to enter the 21st century.  <_<


Flirt's the name, flirtin's my game :lila:

Jenee

#19
February 06, 2006, 12:34:32 AM
MSNBC

71-year-old has been suffering dizzy spells since October, palace says

QuoteTOKYO - Japan's Empress Michiko, suffering from dizzy spells, has cancelled her official duties for a week, a palace spokeswoman said on Sunday.

Michiko, 71, has had dizzy spells for unknown reasons since October, the spokeswoman for the Imperial Household Agency said.

"The Majesty the Empress plans to return to official duties after taking a sufficient rest for a week," she said.
"It does not do to dwell on dreams, and forget to live" -Dumbledore

Ladybee

#20
February 07, 2006, 10:52:55 AM
Her sister-in-law Princess Kako, wife of the 2nd Imperial Prince is pregnant.Certainly not a coincidence...
:o

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18070692-2,00.html

Everybody is hoping for a boy. How sexist!
:waaaah:

Windsor

#22
February 07, 2006, 11:28:44 AM
If it is Japanese Imperial tradition then I don't see why it should be changed.

Jenee

#23
February 07, 2006, 06:33:19 PM
traditions are BS :rant:

^^nice, calm, logical and rationally supported argument, isn't it :P
"It does not do to dwell on dreams, and forget to live" -Dumbledore
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