Women to Stay in Imperial Family after Marriage: Advisory Panel Draft
On December 6, the government's advisory panel (chaired by Atsushi Seike, former president of Keio University), which is discussing a stable succession to the throne, confirmed the outline of its final report. As concrete measures to cope with the decline in the number of members of the Imperial Family, a report will be compiled by the end of this year, and the government will report to the Diet on two proposals: (1) female members of the IF will remain in the IF after marriage, and (2) male members of the former IF will return to the IF as adopted children. At the meeting, they presented two proposals for securing the number of members of the IF, and in the event that they still could not secure the number of members, they proposed that male members of the former IF be made members of the IF directly by law, rather than through adoption. From the viewpoint of protecting the succession of the throne by male lineal descendants, the meeting did not touch on the pros and cons