do you think, there were debates about changing the law for princess aiko was born.y one day change this rule? i think it is possible and i guess that naruhito would be the emperor to push that. partly because his wife suffered mentally because of the pressure she felt to produce a male heir. he has been outspoken of his criticism of that full it is possible but as said, any changes would be incremental and need to be accompanied by a change of law passed by the diet. i would not rule it out. as we have been saying earlier he is not allowed to make a political statement. it is a tricky balance, isn't it? if you think that if he wanted a woman to be able to ta ke to if he wanted a woman to be able to take to the phone. it is tricky and i think that he has gotten around this in the pastjust by making state m e nts this in the pastjust by making statements about his wife and what the cause of her illness was. and, sort of, being a little critical in that way. so if he were to speak out a bit more publicly about that it could trigger some pressure from below on the diet

masako in one thousand nine hundred three and they have one child the seventeen year old princess aiko who's barred by law from inheriting the throne because she is female not a hue to his life has been largely free of scandal michael pena is the president and news agency joins me now from tokyo good to have you with us again michael obviously we've seen a very intricate details ceremony which sets out really. a similar path for the new emperor in a similar vein to his father. yes well i mean. if something has succeeded marvelously as the reign of akihito was i mean there was almost no criticism that you could make of of akihito study or rain he he did everything he could to as your correspondent said to make the you know the imperial institution more relevant closer to the people a symbol of peace coming after the much more controversial reign of his own father the emperor hirohito so you know when you have such a good role model there's probably no reason why we should expect narrow hito to want to depart in any sharp ways from what his father has done because this father was a was o