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Still Taboo After All These Years: Japan's New Imperial Heir and the Media

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

David McNeill
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In late August, just over a week before Princess Kiko gave birth, Newsweek Japan commissioned me to contribute an article on the succession issue. With most of the country expecting a baby boy, the remit was to write a ‘very outspoken, opinionated’ piece on how ‘foreign experts’ viewed the latest developments in Japan's imperial drama, with the emphasis on a single rhetorical question: wouldn't a girl be better?

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 10 , October 2006 , e11
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