Japanese government hopes to allow woman on throne within years ...
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TOKYO : The Japanese government hopes to make changes to the constitution that will allow a woman to ascend the Chrysanthemum Throne within &quot;several years,&quot; a news report said.
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Japan&#39;s ruling party was poised on Sunday  to pick Yasuo Fukuda, who seeks warmer ties with Asian  neighbours, to succeed Shinzo Abe as prime minister in an  effort to revive party fortunes and fill a political vacuum.
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Japan's Princess Kiko has given birth to a son, likely postponing a long-running debate over whether Japanese law should be changed to allow women to succeed to the throne, the imperial palace announced Wednesday.
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Princess Sayako, the 35-year-old only  daughter of the Japanese emperor, is set to marry a commoner  and leave the imperial family, Japanese media said on Sunday.
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Japanese media have mobilized for the   expected birth of a royal baby who conservatives hope will be   the first imperial male heir in more than 40 years.
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BEIJING, March 6 -- The Japanese government should acknowledge that thousands of foreign women were forced to serve as sex slaves for Japanese troops in World War II, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing said Tuesday.
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Japan's first female defense minister was sworn in Wednesday, pledging to restore trust in the government after her predecessor resigned for suggesting the U.S. atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima were inevitable.
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Japanese Princess Sayako would be married next spring with a Tokyo metropolitan government employee, Japanese media reported Sunday.
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With a wedding ring on her finger and a party endorsement on her back, Kanako Otsuji is on a mission to become Japan&#39;s first openly gay member of parliament -- and change the way the country treats sexual minorities.
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Japan&#39;s ruling party is to choose a successor to outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on September 23, a senior lawmaker said Thursday.
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Japan&#39;s Princess Sayako, the only daughter of Emperor Akihito, will marry Yoshiki Kuroda, a friend of hers from childhood and a civil servant at the Tokyo metropolitan government
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Princess Sayako, the 35-year-old only daughter of the Japanese emperor, is set to marry a commoner and leave the imperial family, Japanese media said on Sunday.
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TOKYO - The government has begun studying the feasibility of allowing a woman to ascend to the Chrysanthemum throne as no male heirs have been born into the imperial family in almost 40 years, the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper reported Wednesday.
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Japan&#39;s decision to extend its troops&#39; mandate in Iraq will mean they stay in the country for at least another year. But the move, seen as part of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi&#39;s efforts
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Japan's Princess Kiko has given birth to the royal family's first boy in more than 40 years, easing a succession crisis and silencing calls to let a woman lead the world's oldest monarchy.
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After years of disappointing speculation about suitors, the engagement of Princess Sayako to a Tokyo city bureaucrat, a commoner, became official today with an announcement by Japanâs Imperial Household Agency.
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Japan won a two-year term on the UN Security Council Friday and hopes to prove that it deserves a permanent seat on the powerful body as the issue of UN reform takes center stage next year.