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Princess Mako

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Princess Mako of Japan's commoner wedding suggests sexism will doom the royal family

by : Kristin Roebuck

In this NBC News piece, Kristin Roebuck, assistant professor of history and Howard Milstein Faculty Fellow, writes that constitutional guarantees of equality between the sexes and within marriage in Japan do not apply to the imperial household, which is governed by a unique body of law. "Imperial Household Law, in force since 1947, decrees imperial daughters, like Mako, ineligible to…

Emperor Akihito and his wife

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Akihito bows out, ushering in era for Japan’s post-war generation

by : Kristin Roebuck

Kristin Roebuck, assistant professor and Howard Milstein Faculty Fellow in the Department of History, talks about the decision of the Japanese emperor to abdicate the throne in this opinion piece in The Hill. "It is a significant changing of the guard," Roebuck writes. "Akihito was born the year Adolf Hilter came to power in 1933. He lived through Japan's staggering defeat and subsequent foreign…