japan expecting a boy

this one is quite cute... japan is expecting an imperial newborn.

there haven't been a male child since 1965, when akishino was born. (don't ask who that is, i know he's male). japanese primeminister junichiro koizumi had planned to enact a legislation to give women equal rights to inherit the trone, to avoid succession crisis.
of course, conservationists are keen to keep the existing law unchanged, and females away from the trone.

experts agree, whatever, that reform would still be needed since ensuring of the future male heirs is a problem since a royal concubine system is no longer active. it was stopped by the hirohito, emeror akihito's father.

good luck to japan.

found on cnn. link