• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    It was about six hundred years before we had a queen in England too. I’m sure they’ll just go “fuck it, guess we’re doing empresses now”

    It’s not like they actually run anything. It could honestly be a fucking cat and be more popular.

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      Options include accepting female emperors, picking a new royal family, or becoming a republic. You’re probably right that they’ll go with the female emperor when the time comes.

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        There have been empresses in the (distant) past, it’s just that now they claim it’s no good. They’ll go back to it they really have no one else. Picking a different family is NOT happening, the Japanese line is the oldest continuous dynasty in the world (mythologically allegedly 2680 years, historically reliably something like 1400~1500 years and possibly 1800). It’s a living treasure of humanity. They’ll give up the system before they pick a new line, and they’ll pick a woman before they give up the system.