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

There are only three people in line to inherit Japan's Chrysanthemum Throne, and one of them is 90 years old. All three of ...

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

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

Japan has reformed its Imperial House Law. The monarchy is to be secured through male descendants of former collateral lines.

A revised imperial law keeps the long-standing male-only succession system, defying public support for female emperors.

TOKYO — Japan’s beloved Princess Aiko is often cheered like a pop star. During a visit to Nagasaki with Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, the sound of her name being screamed by well-wishers along ...

A popular princess drives support for having a female Japanese Emperor. But the country's first female prime minister opposes ...

This is the first change made to a certain law since 1949.

Japan stands torn between tradition and the future, as Princess Aiko, the only child of Emperor Naruhito, finds herself at the center of a growing movement to change the country’s patriarchal rules of ...