re: #84 No Malarkey!

I have a question, if anyone knows. If members of the Japanese royal family aren’t supposed to marry “commoners,” who the Hell are they supposed to marry? Does Japan have other nobles like Dukes and Barons? I can’t imagine they would want them marrying European nobles. news.yahoo.com

It’s really becoming a crisis of sorts. Imperial men can now marry commoners. Mako’s grandmother was the first and caused a big sensation in the 1950s. The current empress also came from a prominent businessman’s family. But, if memory serves, there’s only one male heir right now. And the women who have married into the family have suffered traumatic stress over the pressures society and media places on the family, not to mention the Imperial Household Agency. So, good luck getting anyone to marry the heir to the throne.