After 40 years, Hisahito is the 1st male Japanese prince to reach adulthood.

The public’s pick to become the empress is his older cousin Princess Aiko, the only child of Naruhito and his wife Masako, a former diplomat with a Harvard education. Despite her direct line of descent, the current legislation prohibits her from assuming that job.
There is some confusion in the succession chart: the emperor is Naruhito. Akishino, his brother, comes in second. The next person is Akishino’s son, Hisahito.

following Hisahito was born in 2006, an earlier plan to enable an empress following Aiko’s birth was canceled.

Hisahito said in a statement, “At this time, I would like to cherish my remaining time in high school.” According to the statement, he has a lifelong fascination with insects and even co-authored a research paper on a study of dragonflies on the grounds of his Tokyo mansion in Akasaka.

In order to stop the imperial family’s population from declining, a panel of experts, mostly conservative, who were commissioned by the government in January 2022 suggested that the government consider allowing female members to maintain their royal status after marriage while adopting male descendants from now-defunct royal families to carry on the male lineage with distant relatives.

Critics argue that those steps would be ineffective as long as the male-only succession is upheld, since the pre-modern system relied heavily on concubines to function.

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