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Yomiuri Shimbun
2 days ago
- Politics
- Yomiuri Shimbun
Japan to Carry over Imperial Family Talks to Next Diet Session
Yomiuri Shimbun file photo The Diet Building in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Diet leaders on Friday confirmed that discussions on proposed Imperial family will be carried over to the expected next extraordinary session of the Diet that may be held in autumn. House of Representatives Speaker Fukushiro Nukaga and House of Councillors President Masakazu Sekiguchi agreed to give up trying to form a consensus on plans to secure an adequate number of Imperial family members during the current ordinary session slated to end on June 22. The agreement was made because ruling and opposition parties remain apart on the issue. The ruling and opposition camps started their discussions in May last year, focusing on the ideas of allowing female Imperial family members to remain in the family even after marriage and adopting male members in the paternal line of former Imperial family branches who were removed from the family in 1947.
3 days ago
- Politics
Japan to Carry Over Imperial Family Talks to Next Diet Session
News from Japan Jun 6, 2025 23:03 (JST) Tokyo, June 6 (Jiji Press)--The leaders of Japan's two parliamentary chambers Friday confirmed that discussions on proposed Imperial Family will be carried over to the expected next extraordinary session of the Diet that may be held in autumn. House of Representatives Speaker Fukushiro Nukaga and House of Councillors President Masakazu Sekiguchi agreed to give up trying to form a consensus on plans to secure an adequate number of Imperial Family members during the current ordinary session slated to end on June 22. The agreement was made because ruling and opposition parties remain apart on the issue. The ruling and opposition camps started their discussions in May last year, focusing on the ideas of allowing female Imperial Family members to remain in the family even after marriage and adopting male members in the paternal line of former Imperial Family branches removed from the family in 1947. END [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.] Jiji Press
Japan Times
5 days ago
- General
- Japan Times
Japan lawmakers likely to put off decision on imperial family plan
The ruling and opposition parties are highly likely to postpone a decision on ways to secure the number of imperial family members as the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan remain far apart on the matter, senior party members said. Leaders of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of parliament, who have been mediating informal talks between the two parties, have found it difficult to reach a conclusion before the current parliamentary session is set to end on June 22. Some are calling for an interim report to summarize discussions. The ruling and opposition parties are split over an option of adopting back into the imperial family male members in the paternal line of 11 former branches of the family. They have broadly agreed to allow female imperial family members to remain in the family even after marriage. Still, the LDP is reluctant to give the status of an imperial family member to husbands and children of female imperial family members due to concerns that this could possibly pave the way for people from the maternal line to become emperors. LDP supreme adviser Taro Aso and CDP leader Yoshihiko Noda have held informal talks on the matter since March under the mediation of Lower House Speaker Fukushiro Nukaga and Vice Speaker Koichiro Genba. Aso has insisted that husbands and children of female imperial family members should become part of the family only if the husbands are in the paternal line of the former branches. Noda has proposed leaving any decision to the Imperial House Council. The four members in the talks canceled a meeting on Tuesday. "We'll start over in fall," one of the four said. Nukaga had been aiming to agree on a draft plan among the four members and present it to the overall meeting of lawmakers before the current Diet session ends, but this has become unlikely.
