Tokyo rarely lets its imperial family speak plainly. In public, the men and women of the Chrysanthemum Throne rarely discuss the politics that shape their lives. When Crown Prince Akishino sat down for a news conference on August 13, 2026, alongside his wife , Crown Princess Kiko , he was navigating a trap of his own government’s making.
Days earlier, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi ‘s administration had pushed the most consequential rewrite of Japan’s imperial succession law in a generation. Reporters wanted to know what the family thought of it. Akishino, the emperor’s only brother and the man next in line to the throne, gave them as little…
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