Politics
A UN Recommendation on Imperial Succession, and Suspicion About Who Is Posting
A UN committee recommended that Japan revise the Imperial House Law, which restricts succession to males of the male line, to guarantee gender equality. Online the response was overwhelmingly that this is interference in domestic affairs, with the Vatican repeatedly cited as proof of a double standard. A parallel argument broke out over whether a sudden rise in posts supporting Princess Aiko as a future empress was organic or coordinated.