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Japanese government panel to hold first meeting on female monarch issue.
(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)
Excerpt from report by Shinya Ajima, carried in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo
Tokyo, 25 January: A government panel on imperial succession issues will convene its first meeting Tuesday [25 January] with its main focus on the issue of whether a female should be allowed to ascend the throne.
The 10-member panel will discuss the possibility of revising the Imperial House Law as a way enabling the imperial succession to be sustained without any break. The panel is scheduled to submit a report on the issue to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in the fall.
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