{"id":32117,"date":"2021-05-15T13:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T04:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/15\/heir-of-desperation-as-japan-wrestles-with-looming-royal-succession-crisis"},"modified":"2021-05-15T13:00:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T04:00:16","slug":"heir-of-desperation-as-japan-wrestles-with-looming-royal-succession-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32117","title":{"rendered":"Heir of desperation as Japan wrestles with looming royal succession crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts convened to consider changing male-only succession laws amid preponderance of women in the royal family<\/p>\n<p>A panel of experts has begun talks on addressing the shortage of heirs to the Japanese imperial throne, as a poll showed that four in five members of the public are comfortable with the idea of women becoming reigning empresses.<\/p>\n<p>Solving the succession crisis has taken on greater urgency due to a scarcity of males in the world\u2019s oldest monarchy and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/apr\/21\/end-of-an-era-in-japan-as-emperor-akihito-abdicates\">abdication<\/a>, for health reasons, of Emperor Akihito.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/15\/heir-of-desperation-as-japan-wrestles-with-looming-royal-succession-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts convened to consider changing male-only succession laws amid preponderance of women in the royal familyA panel of experts has begun talks on addressing the shortage of heirs to the Japanese imperial throne, as a poll showed that four in five me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32118,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32117\/revisions\/32118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}