Overview
- The party’s task force unveiled a chief’s plan that prioritizes allowing female imperial family members to remain royal after they marry.
- The plan postpones any decision on whether a woman’s husband or children would be counted as royal, leaving that choice to a future consensus in the national legislature.
- It also endorses, in principle, taking in male-line descendants from former imperial branches as adoptees, with exact requirements to be designed in later talks.
- Task force head Hirofumi Kasa said he will seek a mandate from a meeting of all party lawmakers to move the proposal forward.
- Current rules remove a woman’s royal status when she marries, which has reduced the number of working royals and increased concern about stable succession.