40 years to reach adulthood is a bit long, no?
this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2025
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I mean, unless this 19 year old dude stated that he will not have kids, period, I don't see how "he may be the last".
The fundamental question is not whether to allow male or female succession line but how to save the monarchy
The answer is "don't". Monarchies' only use nowadays are as living relics of worse types of government and social structure.
Meh, they're basically living tourist attractions these days with no more political power than a movie star.
Royalty have long memories.
While you're right, I think they're more "biding their time" than content with this tbh.
The emperor of Japan was largely a symbolic position during the Tokugawa shogunate until the Meiji restoration restored him back to power, remember.
This headline reads like a threat
Wow. Definitely sounds like this is fs the most pressing issue facing Japanese society.
And fucking. Can't have kids if you don't make enough to afford a place to fuck. Also can't have kids if no one wants to fuck since no one can afford a family. Also can't have kids if the citizens never fuck immigrants due to their tendency to only fuck Japanese natives...racism ultra baked culture that swears they aren't racists. Even insinuating that they may be racists is seen as criminal. Because anime has black people, see they're not racist!
Well, if they ever change their mind I will valiantly and selflessly volunteer to go fuck some Japanese women
Alrighty I guess. Just don't hold your breath! Karate kid tried and got to hump air.
The whiplash of learning japan has a royal family in modern ages is wild.
It's just like the UK though, they're just figureheads
Still, nonetheless, quite a wild thing to learn.
There are quite a few European countries that still have monarchs. Just seems our last one before this one was "iconic" or whatever people call her. Glad the popularity of it is fading with the new one
Even more wild they call their king, emperor.
They call him tennou actually (heavenly king) but then when they were forced to open up, they heard of Napoleon and they thought damn that's cool, we'll tell foreigners to use that too.
Tennou has been in use for over 1350 years, and in the late 19th c. they thought their governmental subdivision (provinces) more closely matched that of France under Napoleon III I think (departments).
Loads of countries have royal families. I said many times that it's not a stupid model and latest events in Poland only confirm this.
Long story short: Polish president has mostly decorative role but current far-right guy is now illegally usurping powers that are constitutionally not his and conspiring with Trump behind the government's back.
In monarchies the King/Queen have pretty much the same role but their position is so weak that they simply smile and follow the orders. They have a lot to lose and nothing to gain.
How does that work? I heard of things like that in some countries. Venezuela is the only one that comes to mind. Idk if this is currently happening, but at least in the past there was an official and a non-official government because Maduro never accepted that he lost his ellections... but Poland seems to have a working democracy... or am I missing something? Is Poland that polarized?
It is extremely polarized but it's not about elections. Couple examples of what the president is doing now:
- the constitution is clear that the government (so the Prime Minister and his staff) is responsible for foreign policy. When the president goes abroad he should get his instructions from the government and be accompanied by someone from the government. President ignored this before meeting Trump. He's basically trying to run parallel foreign policy which is crazy dangerous and damaging
- new judges have to be swear in before the president. it's just a ceremony but the president decided he will not swear in judges he doesn't like
- same with ambassadors. according to the constitution those are nominated by the gov but the president decided he will only swear in those he approves
He's basically using weak points of the constitution (which admittedly is simply badly written) to derail the government and is trying to rule in parallel where possible even though his post was designed as a purely ceremonial one.
Their government was an imperial model during WWII. Unless they killed off the royalty, why would you assume they had no descendants?
It's not that, its just not something I have heard of, like, at all. Unlike most of the rest of the worlds royalty. Though them being less in the world news makes plenty of sense.
Well, things went about as well for Japan's royalty as it did for Japan in general when they lost WWII.
Who cares about this?
Did you know that China forcibly disappeared a 6 year old back in 1995 and they're still holding him captive to this day?
Sure, but you could post this about anything. What does this have to do with Japan?
I care an equal amount about this.
That's crazy. How