Nationwide opinion polls in Japan have suggested broad public support for a female emperor, but some conservative political ...

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

The more controversial of the two measures allows unmarried male descendants, aged 15 or older, of distant imperial relatives ...

A law set to pass Friday by Japan’s parliament could doom its 1,500-year-old hereditary institution by insisting that only ...