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Japan protests UN call for examining male-only royal succession

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KYODO - Japan has lodged a protest with a United Nations (UN) human rights watchdog that called for reviewing a domestic law that limits imperial succession to male heirs on the emperor's father side, the top government spokesman said Wednesday.




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