Growing popularity of Princess Aiko reopens the debate on male imperial succession in Japan

Princess Aiko of Japan, the only daughter of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, turned 24 on Monday as her popularity soars and she takes on a growing role in official events. Her rising prestige has reopened the debate — in a patriarchal and traditionalist society — about the possibility of a woman inheriting the throne, despite the Salic law that governs Japan’s rules of imperial succession.

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