Japan celebrated the entry to the maturity of Prince Hisahito on Saturday 6 September, second in the order of succession after his father, Prince Akishino and brother of emperor Naruhito. He is the only young male heir of the throne, on the shoulders whose future is based on the imperial family who has no political power, but retains a strong symbolic value in Japan.
During the official ceremony, in the imperial palace of Tokyo, Prince Hisahito received a traditional cap made of black silk and paint, which symbolized adulthood. “I will pay my duties, aware of my responsibilities as an adult member of the imperial family”said the prince, who wore the traditional yellow costume of minors, for the emperor Naruhito and the Empress Masako.
He then put on a dark clothing that is reserved for adult members of the royal family, before climbing a carriage to attend the ceremony. The student celebrated his 19th birthday on Saturday. He became an adult on his 18th birthday, but the ceremony was delayed with a year to enable him to complete his secondary studies.
Nine out of ten Japanese favorable for accession to the throne of a woman
Princess Aiko, 23, a only child of Naruhito, cannot follow her father according to a rule in force since 1947, because she is a woman; A provision criticized by a United Nations Commission. However, nine out of ten Japanese are in favor of a woman who has access to the throne, according to a study by the Kyodo press agency.
The issue of royal follow -up has been stirring Japan for decades. In 2005, a government committee had recommended that it returns to the oldest child, the woman or the man. This decision seemed to open the way for the emperor’s daughter, but the birth of Hisahito had ended the debate the following year.
According to the shinto religion, the emperors descend from Japan from the goddess of the sun, Amaterasu, and the legend sets their origins in more than two thousand six hundred years. After the defeat of Japan at the end of the Second World War, the American occupier had maintained the institution to retain national cohesion. Traditionalists believe that the “Uninterrupted imperial line” Man is the basis of Japan and that a change would distribute the country.
Squatters
Historically, the women of the members of the royal family suffered intense pressure to give birth to sons. Keizerin Masako, a former diplomat with a high ranking, has long suffered from a stress -related disease after he came to the royal family, attributed by some to the pressure of having a boy.
Hisahito’s sister Mako married her boyfriend met at the university and developed post -traumatic stress syndrome because of the intense interest of the scandal press for her parents -in -law. The couple now live in the United States, where they had a child. When they get married, women of the royal family are forced to leave their families. To modernize the institution, a proposal determines that they can continue to perform their public functions after their marriage.
The conservatives, them, are more likely to put pressure on the royal family to return to male distant parents. But it is not certain that these men are ready to give up their freedom to perpetuate the line.
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