Japan has lodged a protest with a U.N. human rights watchdog that called for reviewing a domestic law that limits imperial succession to male heirs on the emperor's father side, the top government spokesman said Wednesday.Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said the imperial succession system is linked to the foundations of Japan as a country, and that the government had told the U.N. panel, which aims at eliminating discrimination against women, before the release of the review that it would be "inappropriate" for it to take up the issue."It is extremely regrettable that the final re…READ FULL ARTICLE
