Let a woman become emperor to avoid future Japan succession crisis, defence minister says

Japan’s Defence Minister Taro Kono may have upset the country’s conservatives by calling for women to be allowed to become emperor, but his comments have failed to generate any real debate about the future of the nation’s endangered monarchy.The veteran politician adopted a position very different from that of the vast majority of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party when he said in an interview last Sunday that the nation needed to consider alternatives to drawing a new emperor from the…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3099228/let-woman-become-emperor-avoid-future-japan-succession