日本皇室繼承法擱淺 安倍否決“女天皇”
[ 2007-01-05 10:10 ]
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據報道，日本首相安倍晉三已經決定否決修改皇室典范，拒絕采用讓女性繼承天皇皇位的建議。與此同時，安倍建議日本朝野繼續進行討論，但“女天皇”已不在討論范圍內。討論的重點將是如何確保皇位繼承的穩定性，以免再次出現后繼乏人的難題，這將意味著德仁皇太子的女兒愛子公主將與女天皇稱號無緣。
安倍作出這一決定和紀子妃去年9月誕下男嬰悠仁不無關系。這是日本皇室近41年來增添的第一名男丁。悠仁的降生使日本皇室缺乏男性繼承人的難題暫時得以緩解。
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Japanese Princess
Aiko (L), accompanied by her mother Crown Princess Masako (R), September
last year. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has decided to scrap a
government panel's proposal to let women ascend to the Japanese throne,
according to a newspaper report. |
Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe has decided to scrap a government panel's proposal to let women
ascend to the Japanese throne ,
according to a newspaper report.
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Abe would still consider amending the
rules for royal succession as the
world's oldest monarchy faces a crisis due to its male-only succession
tradition, the conservative Sankei Shimbun said without citing
sources.
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It said the decision by Abe, who had been wary of letting women
take the Chrysanthemum Throne, was made possible with the September birth of
Prince Hisahito -- the first boy born to the imperial family since
1965.
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The birth was a dream come true for conservatives, and led
then-prime minister Junichiro Koizumi to suspend widely popular plans to
introduce female succession.
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Crown Princess Masako, a former career
woman who makes few appearances due to the stress of adapting to palace life,
has only one child from 13 years of marriage -- four-year-old Princess
Aiko.
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Traditionalists believe the imperial family has descended from a
male line dating back more than 2,600 years. Historians agree the lineage dates back from at least the sixth century
AD.
（Agencies）
Vocabulary:
scrap：veto（否決、禁止）
ascend
to the Japanese throne：繼承日本皇位
royal
succession：皇位繼承
lineage：直系后代世襲
（英語點津陳蓓編輯） |
