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The Imperial Household Law was passed during the Shōwa era on January 16, 1947, by the last session of the Imperial Diet. This law superseded the Imperial Household Law of 1889, which had enjoyed co-equal status with the Constitution of the Empire of Japan and could only be amended by the Emperor.
The Imperial House Law of 1889 was the first Japanese law to regulate the imperial succession. Until October 1947, when it was abolished and replaced with the Imperial Household Law, it defined the succession to the throne under the principle of agnatic primogeniture.
The Upper House, or House of Peers consisted of members of the Imperial Family, hereditary peerage and members appointed by the Emperor. The Lower House, or House of Representatives was directly elected by all males who paid at least 15 yen in property taxes, effectively limiting the suffrage to 1.1 percent of the population.
The 1947 Imperial House Law, which largely preserves conservative Japanese prewar family values, allows only males to take the throne and forces female royal family members who marry commoners to ...
However, ukase #35731/1489, issued on 11 August 1911, amended the 1889 ban with these words: "Henceforth no grand duke or grand duchess may contract a marriage with a person not possessing corresponding rank, that is, not belonging to a Royal or Ruling house". Both the 1889 and 1911 decrees were addenda to Article 188 of the Pauline laws ...
September 18 – The influential Hull House settlement house opens in Chicago. September – Sherman Day Thacher opens The Thacher School, one of America's oldest and most unique boarding high schools, to a small group of students in the mountains of Ojai, California.
More than 135 years after Ohio passed a law to curb vigilante justice, AG Dave Yost is warning that protestors could run afoul of that same law. Ohio passed a law to stop vigilantes in 1889. Now ...
The Newborns' and Mothers' Health Protection Act is a piece of legislation relating to the coverage of maternity by health insurance plans in the United States of America. It is signed into law on September 26 and requires plans that offer maternity coverage to pay for at least a 48-hour hospital stay following childbirth (96-hour stay in the ...