{"id":73974,"date":"2025-09-06T14:54:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T05:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/06\/japans-second-in-line-to-emperor-throne-comes-of-age-amid-succession-debate"},"modified":"2025-09-06T14:54:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T05:54:58","slug":"japans-second-in-line-to-emperors-throne-comes-of-age-amid-succession-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73974","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s second in line to emperor\u2019s throne comes of age amid succession debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teenage Prince Hisahito\u2019s elaborate ceremony overshadowed by questions over royal family\u2019s male-only succession rules<\/p>\n<p>Japan has heralded the coming of age of Prince Hisahito with an elaborate ceremony at the Imperial Palace, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/15\/heir-of-desperation-as-japan-wrestles-with-looming-royal-succession-crisis\">a succession crisis is brewing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The nephew of Emperor Naruhito, Hisahito received a black silk and lacquer crown at Saturday\u2019s ceremony in Tokyo, which marks the beginning of his royal adult life.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/06\/japans-second-in-line-to-emperor-throne-comes-of-age-amid-succession-debate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teenage Prince Hisahito\u2019s elaborate ceremony overshadowed by questions over royal family\u2019s male-only succession rulesJapan has heralded the coming of age of Prince Hisahito with an elaborate ceremony at the Imperial Palace, where a succession crisis is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73974","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73975,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73974\/revisions\/73975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}