{"id":13369,"date":"2025-12-12T00:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=13369"},"modified":"2025-12-11T12:57:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:57:35","slug":"the-week-december-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=13369","title":{"rendered":"The Week (December 10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFresh off her first solo state visit to Laos, Princess Aiko has become the face of a Japanese royal family facing 21st-century obsolescence.\u201d Under current succession law, however, her male cousin Prince Hisahito of Akishino will succeed to the throne. The question is when Japan will be \u201cready for change.\u201d As demonstrated by Japan\u2019s election of \u201cconservative Sanae Takaichi as its first woman prime minister in October,\u201d public support exists \u201cfor the notion that Aiko, or \u2018any other woman in the future,\u2019 could be made royal successor, which has led to a grassroots effort to readdress the rules.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFresh off her first solo state visit to Laos, Princess Aiko has become the face of a Japanese royal family facing 21st-century obsolescence.\u201d Under current succession law, however, her male cousin Prince Hisahito of Akishino will succeed to the throne. The question is when Japan will be \u201cready for change.\u201d As demonstrated by Japan\u2019s election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4545,17363,588,10583,17364,4,16872,17361,245,8801,7482,501,17104,5026],"class_list":["post-13369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-21st-century","tag-aiko","tag-change","tag-grassroots","tag-hisahito","tag-japan","tag-laos","tag-obsolescence","tag-prime-minister","tag-public-support","tag-royal-family","tag-succession","tag-takaichi","tag-throne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13370,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369\/revisions\/13370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}