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Now is the Time for a National Debate on the Monarchy Itself

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Okudaira Yasuhiro
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The imperial institution with its official toleration of hereditary succession and gender discrimination is an enormous contradiction embedded in the Constitution of Japan. Debate over a female successor to the throne ignores this illogicality at its peril. Today we should be thinking not about a female monarch but the monarchy itself, and what the country ideally should be. Yet nobody discusses this issue.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 6 , June 2005 , e22
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