Japan may have its first ever female prime minister, but her government’s attempts to avoid a royal succession crisis are making the chances of a woman taking the imperial throne ever slimmer. With just three eligible heirs to the Chrysanthemum throne ...

Last October, Japan shattered its ultimate glass ceiling. Nearly a year into Sanae Takaichi’s tenure as the country’s first female prime minister, though, the global standing of Japanese women remains stuck in the basement.

May 21 (Asia Today) --A growing number of Japanese women are choosing Korean men as marriage partners, drawing attention from local media as the Korean Wave expands beyond dramas and K-pop into dating and family life. The trend did not emerge overnight.

Japan’s legislature is drafting a plan to allow the imperial family to adopt distant male relatives. But some in Japan would prefer a female emperor. By Javier C. Hernández and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Tokyo Japan’s imperial family, which has long ...