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The World Beyond BetterMost => Anything Goes => Topic started by: delalluvia on January 04, 2007, 08:45:57 am

Title: Japan scraps plans to allow women to inherit throne
Post by: delalluvia on January 04, 2007, 08:45:57 am

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070103/ap_on_re_as/japan_imperial_succession

Notice how some conservatives thought that making women prostitutes is a better solution than giving women a (symbolic) power status.   ::) ::) ::)

Can't believe I'm reading this in this day and age in such a Western country.

Title: Re: Japan scraps plans to allow women to inherit throne
Post by: moremojo on January 04, 2007, 11:28:00 am

Very disappointed to read this. :-\ The irony is that Japan has already been graced by a handful (five? six?) of empresses regnant, the most recent having lived in the eighteenth century (during the Tokugawa shogunate). Japan is setting itself apart (in a most unappealing way) from so many of the other monarchies of the present world in barring females from the succession; in fact, many of the most progressive monarchies (such as The Netherlands and Sweden) now have succession laws that enable first-born children to inherit the throne regardless of sex.

Ah well...I'm still a republican at heart (that's with a little 'r', mind you ;)).