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January 10, 2024

Queen Margrethe II is the first Danish monarch to abdicate in 900 years – but it is just a sign of the times

Darius von Guttner Sporzynski, Australian Catholic University

Queen Margrethe II’s abdication ceremony is scheduled for this Sunday, the 52nd anniversary of her accession to the throne.

Japan’s new Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako make their first public appearance to at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan, May 4, 2019. EPA-EFE/Franck Robichon

May 7, 2019

Japan: a new emperor and a new era – but women are still excluded from the Chrysanthemum Throne

Ella Tennant, Keele University

History tells us there were eight women who ruled as empresses of Japan, but since reforms of the constitution in 1947, only a man can inherit the throne.

Japan’s Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako at their residence Togu Palace in Tokyo, Feb. 17, 2019. Imperial Household Agency of Japan/Handout via Reuters

May 1, 2019

Japan’s new emperor is a modern, multilingual environmentalist

Constantine Nomikos Vaporis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Japan’s 86-year-old Emperor Akihito abdicates on April 30 — an exceedingly rare event for this ancient monarchy. Can his son, Prince Naruhito, give Japan’s royal family a modern makeover?

Grill, a 19-year-old female California sea lion, holds a brush in her jaws after writing the calligraphy ‘Reiwa’ to mark the beginning of a new era for Japan. EPA-EFE/Jiji Press Japan

April 4, 2019

Japan: spring and prosperity the watchwords as country announces a new era

Nicolas Tranter, University of Sheffield

The country has reached back more than a thousand years into its early literary heritage for an auspicious name for a new era under a new emperor.

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