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    Since when, under Japanese Imperial law, have women been forbidden from reigning and before then, how many female Emperors have there been if any?

    Question #74136. Asked by skysmom65. (Jan 04 07 11:06 AM)


    lanfranco

    		In an 1889 Imperial Household Law, the imperial succession was fixed on males only. This law was reiterated in 1947, after World War II and in conjunction with efforts to redefine the role of the emperor.

    This site is inconsistent on the number of reigning empresses -- either eight or nine. I've read elsewhere that there were eight. However, none of them passed the throne on to her own children. They were all, apparently, interim rulers, who reigned only until a suitable male heir came of age:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_of_Japan

    Jan 04 07, 12:27 PM

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