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Aiko Princess Toshi

No empress for Japan despite a lack of heirs

Tuesday, 3 August 2021, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Japan has ruled out allowing a woman to ascend the Imperial throne despite a lack of male heirs and widespread popular support for a female ruler. The government panel working to solve the succession crisis will not even consider allowing women to reign. Under the Imperial Household Law, only men can ascend the throne. The [read more]
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Japan

A look at the life of Crown Princess Kiko of Japan

Wednesday, 10 March 2021, 6:00 Brittani Barger 1
Kiko Kawashima was born on 11 September 1966 in Shizuoka Saiseikai General Hospital in Suga-ku, Shizuoka, Japan, to Tatsuhiko Kawashima and Kazuyo Sugimoto. The family relocated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, the following year for her father to attend the famous Ivy League school, the University of Pennsylvania. The family would later become a family of [read more]
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A look at Japan’s Princess Kako

Wednesday, 6 January 2021, 6:00 Brittani Barger 1
Japan’s Princess Kako of Akishino was born as the second child of the now Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko; Kako Naishinnō was born at the Imperial Household Hospital in Tokyo on 29 December 1994. Her older sister is Princess Mako (b. 1991), and her younger brother is Prince Hisahito (b. 2006). Embed from [read more]
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Taking a look at the life of Queen Himiko

Sunday, 10 November 2019, 0:00 Brittani Barger 0
Before Japan was even a country, other women ruled like the legendary Queen Himiko of Yamatai-koku (a country in what is now Japan during the Yayoi period). Queen Himiko, who some call Pimiko, was born c. 170 CE in Yamatai-koku as the daughter of Emperor Suinin, and she is mentioned in Chinese, Japanese and Korean sources. [read more]
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Go-Sakuramachi of Japan

Empresses Regnant of Japan – Empress Go-Sakuramachi

Tuesday, 30 April 2019, 5:50 Moniek Bloks 0
Empress Go-Sakuramachi was the last of eight Empresses Regnant of Japan. Before her accession to the throne, she was known as Toshiko. She was born on 23 September 1740 as the second daughter of Emperor Sakuramachi and Nijō Ieko. Her elder sister Noriko died in childhood in 1746. Her younger half-brother was Prince Toohito, later [read more]
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Japan

Empresses Regnant of Japan – Empress Meishō

Monday, 29 April 2019, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Before Empress Meishō succeeded as Empress Regnant of Japan, she was known as Oki-ko. She was born on 9 January 1624 as the second daughter of Emperor Go-Mizunoo and Tokugawa Masako. She grew up in the Inner Apartments of the Heian Palace. She was one of at least 33 (half) siblings. Het father abdicated in [read more]

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