Japan’s Prince Hisahito is the first male royal to reach adulthood in 40 years. He may be the last
Tokyo (AP) – Japan Prince Hisahito The first male royal to reach adulthood in 40 years. It could be the last one.
Detailed palace rituals to officially recognize Hisahito as an adult on Saturday are a reminder of the gloomy look for the world’s oldest monarchy. Most of them come only to male successor policy and decreasing numbers.
Hisahito is the second Chryanthemum throne And one day he will be emperor. However, after that, there was no one left by leaving a dilemma about whether they would reversed and reversed the Empire family in the 19th century.
Hisahito is a first grade student who loves insects
Hisahito, a first -year student at the University of Tsukuba near Tokyo, is researching biology and likes to play Badminton. It was especially dedicated to the Yusufçuk and wrote an academic article on a research of insects on the grounds of the Akasaka property in Tokyo.
At the first news conference in March, the Prince said he hoped to focus on yusufics and other insects, including ways to maintain insect populations in urban areas.
Hisahito was born on September 6, 2006 and his only son Crown Prince AkishinoCrown Princess Kiko, the heir and wife of the throne. He has two great sisters, popular Princess Kako And Old Princess MakoHis marriage with a non -Royal was required to abandon his royal status.
Hisahito’s aging rituals fall after a year He’s 18 years old, He wanted to reach legal adulthood, because he wanted to concentrate on university entrance exams.
He could be the last emperor
Hisahito is his nephew Emperor Naruhito, Who has a child, a daughter, Princess Aiko. Hisahito’s father, Akishino, the emperor’s younger brother Akishino, was the last man to reach adulthood in the family in 1985.
Hisahito is the smallest of the entire 16 -member adult imperial family. He and his father are the only two male varicose veins who are younger than Naruhito. Prince Hitachi, former emperor Akihito’s Little brother, third in the direction of the throne, but already 89.
The scarcity of male successors is a serious concern for the monarchy, which historians say 1,500 years. The problem reflects Japan’s rapidly aging and narrowed population.
Japan had traditionally male emperors, but female successor was allowed. From 1762 to 1770, there were eight emperors, including Gosakuramachi. However, none of them produced a heir during the reign.
For the first time in 1889, the successor was legally limited by men by the pre -war constitution. The post -war 1947 Imperial House Law also allows only male successor, which greatly preserves pre -conservative family values.
However, experts say that the succession system for men is structurally defective only and that it works thanks to the help of concubines that produced empire children until only 100 years ago.
The only daughter of Emperor Naruhito is a very popular princess Aiko and Empress Masako, Although it is supported by most of the people as a future ruler, his father cannot be the successor of his father.
Consecutive debate
In order to address successive concerns, the government compiled an offer to allow a female emperor in 2005. However, Hisahito’s birth quickly changed the tidal and led the proposal to nationalists.
In January 2022, a separate, largely conservative expert panel suggested that the government protected the male -line successors and to ensure that female members have married to protect their royal status and continue their official duties. The conservatives also proposed to adopt male grandchildren from the remote royal families who are currently disappearing to continue their male lineage.
However, the debate stopped the question of whether the Royal who married princesses and children would give royal status to non -Royal.
Former Empire Home Agency Chief Shingo Heteta said in a Yomiuri newspaper article earlier this year, forcing Hisahito to carry the burden of the fate of the imperial family on his own. “The basic question is not whether or not to allow a male or female line, but how to save the monarchy.”
In May, the conservative Yomiuri issued his own proposal in May and called for an emergency revision to allow princesses to royal status to their husbands and children and allow women to succeed in the throne. He called the Parliament to reach the Parliament in a responsible manner about the crisis surrounding the state and the symbol of the unity of the people ”.
Crown, Horse Karri Age and Prayers
Ritual for Hisahito on Saturday would begin on his family residence, seeing a crown to be delivered by an ambassador from Naruhito. Later, he would wear traditional clothes that symbolized his pre -Adulthood status to visit the Imperial Palace to make a crowned ritual.
After transforming a costume symbolizing competence, it is scheduled to ride a royal horse car to pray in three tombs in the palace compound.
In the afternoon, Hisahito will put the tuxedo back to visit the Imperial Palace to greet Naruhito and Empress Masako at the prestigious Matsu-No-Ma or Pine Room. In another ritual, with a post -war tradition, the big cord of the highest order of chrysantema will take. In addition, his grandmother and grandfather Akihito and his wife will greet the former Empress Michiko in their palaces.
In the evening, Akishino and Kiko will organize a special celebration for their sons in a Tokyo hotel where their relatives will gather.
Rituals, the best Shinto Temple of Japan at the beginning of next week, to IME, the legendary emperor Jinmu in Nara and the late grandfather of the wart HirohitoTokyo suburbs. Lunch with the Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba And other dignity Wednesday.
