Anonymous wrote:I can't say I don't feel sorry for Hisahito but the way the IHA and Japanese National Diet handled the succession crisis by not allowing women to be eligible for the throne or at the very least keep their titles and their sons be eligible - makes it impossible to have any other choices.

They need to find a noble girl - preferably one whose familial background is extremely fertililiy-blessed and the girl herself isn't anorexic - so basically the opposite of Japanese societal norms - and choose her for him.

Anonymous wrote:Poor thing. If the marriage does not work, she will be all alone

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like he's cut his hair, no more ponytail.

He did that before the wedding. Still wore the pinstriped suit though.

I hope he pierces his ears next

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Anonymous wrote:So what would be worse in the eyes of the people, marrying the allegedly spotty Kei Komuro or marrying a rich titled Westerner? What if Mako had married Georgiy Romanov? Or the Duke of Westminster, Hugh Grosvenor?

They can be as stubbornly traditional as they want but the simple fact is that the monarchy is going to go extinct due to the absurdly restrictive house laws and then they will be protecting nothing at all. The entire monarchy is riding on 15-year-old Prince Hisahito. What if something happens to him, or he has no sons? There are very few monarchies with agnatic primogeniture anymore and all of them except Liechtenstein are in countries that also allow plural wives.

I don't think he will be able to find a wife. Can you imagine the pressure to produce an heir?
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I dont think that will be a problem. Some of us are pretty fertile and if you have money.....you will get a boy

They've struck out for 50+ years and the Japanese imperial family are billionaires.

+1. There were reports that Masako (the current Emperess) was undergoing fertility treatments for years in hopes of getting a boy. Clearly that didn’t work.

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like he's cut his hair, no more ponytail.

He did that before the wedding. Still wore the pinstriped suit though.

Anonymous wrote:Looks like he's cut his hair, no more ponytail.

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Anonymous wrote:So what would be worse in the eyes of the people, marrying the allegedly spotty Kei Komuro or marrying a rich titled Westerner? What if Mako had married Georgiy Romanov? Or the Duke of Westminster, Hugh Grosvenor?

They can be as stubbornly traditional as they want but the simple fact is that the monarchy is going to go extinct due to the absurdly restrictive house laws and then they will be protecting nothing at all. The entire monarchy is riding on 15-year-old Prince Hisahito. What if something happens to him, or he has no sons? There are very few monarchies with agnatic primogeniture anymore and all of them except Liechtenstein are in countries that also allow plural wives.

I don't think he will be able to find a wife. Can you imagine the pressure to produce an heir?
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I dont think that will be a problem. Some of us are pretty fertile and if you have money.....you will get a boy

They've struck out for 50+ years and the Japanese imperial family are billionaires.

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Anonymous wrote:So what would be worse in the eyes of the people, marrying the allegedly spotty Kei Komuro or marrying a rich titled Westerner? What if Mako had married Georgiy Romanov? Or the Duke of Westminster, Hugh Grosvenor?

They can be as stubbornly traditional as they want but the simple fact is that the monarchy is going to go extinct due to the absurdly restrictive house laws and then they will be protecting nothing at all. The entire monarchy is riding on 15-year-old Prince Hisahito. What if something happens to him, or he has no sons? There are very few monarchies with agnatic primogeniture anymore and all of them except Liechtenstein are in countries that also allow plural wives.

I don't think he will be able to find a wife. Can you imagine the pressure to produce an heir?
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I dont think that will be a problem. Some of us are pretty fertile and if you have money.....you will get a boy

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Anonymous wrote:So what would be worse in the eyes of the people, marrying the allegedly spotty Kei Komuro or marrying a rich titled Westerner? What if Mako had married Georgiy Romanov? Or the Duke of Westminster, Hugh Grosvenor?

They can be as stubbornly traditional as they want but the simple fact is that the monarchy is going to go extinct due to the absurdly restrictive house laws and then they will be protecting nothing at all. The entire monarchy is riding on 15-year-old Prince Hisahito. What if something happens to him, or he has no sons? There are very few monarchies with agnatic primogeniture anymore and all of them except Liechtenstein are in countries that also allow plural wives.

I don't think he will be able to find a wife. Can you imagine the pressure to produce an heir?
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Anonymous wrote:So what would be worse in the eyes of the people, marrying the allegedly spotty Kei Komuro or marrying a rich titled Westerner? What if Mako had married Georgiy Romanov? Or the Duke of Westminster, Hugh Grosvenor?

They can be as stubbornly traditional as they want but the simple fact is that the monarchy is going to go extinct due to the absurdly restrictive house laws and then they will be protecting nothing at all. The entire monarchy is riding on 15-year-old Prince Hisahito. What if something happens to him, or he has no sons? There are very few monarchies with agnatic primogeniture anymore and all of them except Liechtenstein are in countries that also allow plural wives.

I don't think he will be able to find a wife. Can you imagine the pressure to produce an heir?

I imagine the IHA will, and have been, looking at the bloodlines of all the noble houses of Japan. Basically any girl between 13-15 right now in those families is being eyed closely - bonus points if her mom, grandmom, and all the way back to the great-grandma has had 3 or more sons. If he's lucky they'll wait until he/she are 20 to announce an engagement but I'm thinking he's got until he's 25 a most. By then his 81-year-old Uncle will be gone, leaving just Hisahito, his currently 61-year-old uncle, and his 55-year-old father.

Why would it matter if the girl’s family had had sons before? Men provide the chromosome that determines gender, not women.

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Anonymous wrote:So what would be worse in the eyes of the people, marrying the allegedly spotty Kei Komuro or marrying a rich titled Westerner? What if Mako had married Georgiy Romanov? Or the Duke of Westminster, Hugh Grosvenor?

They can be as stubbornly traditional as they want but the simple fact is that the monarchy is going to go extinct due to the absurdly restrictive house laws and then they will be protecting nothing at all. The entire monarchy is riding on 15-year-old Prince Hisahito. What if something happens to him, or he has no sons? There are very few monarchies with agnatic primogeniture anymore and all of them except Liechtenstein are in countries that also allow plural wives.

I don't think he will be able to find a wife. Can you imagine the pressure to produce an heir?

I imagine the IHA will, and have been, looking at the bloodlines of all the noble houses of Japan. Basically any girl between 13-15 right now in those families is being eyed closely - bonus points if her mom, grandmom, and all the way back to the great-grandma has had 3 or more sons. If he's lucky they'll wait until he/she are 20 to announce an engagement but I'm thinking he's got until he's 25 a most. By then his 81-year-old Uncle will be gone, leaving just Hisahito, his currently 61-year-old uncle, and his 55-year-old father.