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The Imperial Household Agency is trying its best to sideline the Crown Prince in the hopes that he gets fed up and renounces his rights in favour of his younger brother. The want to get this done now because they realize that in the future a transition from Naurihito to Akishino or his son is problematic at the very best.
Japan is an aging society and is rapidly changing its conservative outlook on life. Most young and middle-aged people do not mind a Empress Aiko. Crown Prince Naurihito has a good 25-30 years in him. Think about the situation in Japan in 2035-2040 AD: most of Japan's traditionlist old folks will have died off and the current youth will be the middle aged and old folk. The young folk at this time would care for the tradition of male only soverign even less than the young today do.
The IHA managed to stiffle the diet's reform plans when Princess Kiko managed to give birth to a son; however in 25-30 years the new Diet will be entirely made up of reformists where this issue is concerned. It will be very, very hard if not entirely impossible for anyone to justify at that time why the late-Emperor's adult Daughter was passed over in favor of her aged uncle or her male cousin.
Japan is an aging society and is rapidly changing its conservative outlook on life. Most young and middle-aged people do not mind a Empress Aiko. Crown Prince Naurihito has a good 25-30 years in him. Think about the situation in Japan in 2035-2040 AD: most of Japan's traditionlist old folks will have died off and the current youth will be the middle aged and old folk. The young folk at this time would care for the tradition of male only soverign even less than the young today do.
The IHA managed to stiffle the diet's reform plans when Princess Kiko managed to give birth to a son; however in 25-30 years the new Diet will be entirely made up of reformists where this issue is concerned. It will be very, very hard if not entirely impossible for anyone to justify at that time why the late-Emperor's adult Daughter was passed over in favor of her aged uncle or her male cousin.