Japan's House of Representatives and House of Councillors decided on what they called the "legislature's consensus" on ensuring the stability of the imperial family at an all-party plenary meeting.The agreement approves two options -- allowing female imperial family members to retain their status after marriage and adopting into the imperial family male-line male descendants of former imperial branches that left the register -- and asks the government to legislate them. However, it should be regarded as a compromise among political parties that may do little to ensure stable succession or h…READ FULL ARTICLE
