Japan’s imperial family is diminishing. Plan for male-only succession could make it worse
A law set to pass Friday by Japan’s parliament could doom its 1,500-year-old hereditary institution by insisting that only men can be emperor, sparking worry about the shrinking, fast-aging imperial family
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