The Imperial Family has just undergone some major changes, and while Princess Aiko is still barred from the throne, she will ...

Japanese lawmakers revised succession rules to bolster the dwindling ranks of the royal family but ignored public backing to ...

Only male descendants in the male line are eligible to inherit the throne; now, the Imperial Family can adopt distant male ...

Japan’s parliament has enacted a historic revision to the 19th-century Imperial House Law by insisting only paternal-lineage ...

Japan's Royal Family has relaxed its succession rules as it struggles with the lack of heirs - but the ban on female ...

Questions remain about who will succeed Emperor Naruhito, but even the most recent rule change prevents Princess Aiko, the ...

Japan's royal succession crisis deepens as a scholar calls the ban on female emperors 'plainly misogyny' while the imperial ...

For the first time since 1949, Japan has updated its Imperial House Law to expand the number of eligible members of the Japanese royal family, but the new rule continues to exclude women. Princess ...