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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This story is so bizarre. This princess is nowhere in contention for the throne. She will no longer by a royal after the wedding or receive any public monies.  Why would anyone care about who she marries,  to the extent of street protests? [/quote]

From what I know -

A) They consider all the royal children as symbolic and religious representatives of Japan. Because the imperial family are descended from a goddess.

B) Marrying beneath herself is considered polluting the heritage of the imperial family. The European royals have been doing so for a long time, not so the Japanese. It’s a new thing.

C) There’s a rumor that the IHA don’t want any of the young imperial women to marry at all. There’s only three left who are not married (if you marry you’re out of the family) and if they all wed - no one is left to help the 15-year-old future emperor with his duties. [/quote]

Didn’t the previous emperor marry a commoner as empress? What about that? It’s ok for the men but not the women? [b]A deeply sexist society.[/b] [/quote]

Umm the Americans are the ones who created these rules when they occupied Japan...  so I guess we know which society is "sexist."[/quote]

Absolutely not. Sexism in Japan is out of this world and not an American creation. Take the blame where it is due but that is not the case here.

/Japanese American[/quote]

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