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Japan has passed legislation paving the way for 83-year-old Emperor Akihito to abdicate. The law sets the stage for the first abdication of a reigning monarch in two centuries, in a royal family which has a history stretching back 2,600 years.
[...] According to the 1947 Imperial House Law that regulates the line of imperial succession, the emperor cannot step down. The last Japanese monarch to abdicate was Emperor Kokaku, who left in favor of his son back in 1817.
Another issue the Japanese government will discuss is the continuity of the heirs, as women are not allowed to inherit the throne. Additionally, a woman from the imperial family who marries outside the family is then excluded. Akihito has another son, Prince Akishino, and a grandson, Hisahito, aged just 10. All the other members of the royal family are female.
Source: RT
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday June 13 2017, @12:33AM (8 children)
As a good American serviceman, I properly conveyed the US Armed Forces contempt for royalty to the Queen, years ago, at the Silver Jubilee. I did NOT bend my knee for the Queen when she passed in the street.
Wonder if you were aware that US Servicement are forbidden from bowing to foreign royalty? Did you have any idea how much Obama broke with protocol when he groveled for King Abdullah?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WlqW6UCeaY [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday June 13 2017, @03:38AM (6 children)
Indeed I did, and that raised an eyebrow. It didn't, however, trigger me...as it seems to have done to you.
Runaway, you have some serious unresolved fucking daddy issues, you know that? This weird, slavish authoritarianism coupled with an almost unconscious reactive insistence that you're not actually an authoritarian looks baffling from the outside.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday June 13 2017, @01:51PM (4 children)
Obama didn't trigger you, but Runaway does? ROFLMAO Daddy issues? Huh? I thought that was a girl thing. I don't even know what a daddy issue is. You could explain, but I'll probably not listen.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday June 13 2017, @04:01PM (3 children)
Remember that series of posts a few months ago where you bawwwww'd all over us about how your father used to give you the belt? That's what I mean.
And your ridiculous blustering and misdirection here is not only not fooling anyone, it's making everyone reading this exchange painfully aware of how on the nose that was. Do you think we're all stupid? You must. Somehow people with your mindset always think they're the smartest folks in the room...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday June 13 2017, @04:16PM (2 children)
Guys don't do "daddy issues" like girls do. I left, and left it behind. I never felt the need to kiss and make up, thank you very much. Again, that's a girl thing.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday June 13 2017, @06:50PM (1 child)
The hell it is. You've been so scarred by this it affects everything you do, and the more you insist otherwise, the more you show it. Your responses are equal parts bizarre and deliberately deflecting, and you *keep replying* with a lot of force. Who do you think you're fooling?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday June 14 2017, @12:31AM
*sigh*
I'm so glad that Soylent has a psychoanalyst available to help the permanently scarred people who visit. Your work must be really rewarding. I might even consider donating something to keep your work going. Would you like me to email you a bottle of wine, or some donuts? Or, bagels might be more to your liking, donuts are fattening.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday June 13 2017, @01:54PM
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=WTF+are+daddy+issues%3F&atb=v63-6__&ia=web [duckduckgo.com]
I see three hits that might be legitimate, then porn, more porn, more porn, something about tinder which may or may not be pornographic. Please, don't explain this shit to me. It's probably something that I'll never un-see or un-imagine again.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday June 14 2017, @12:10AM
> groveled
He also bent for the Emperor of Japan. He understands that good relations start with respect.
Neither the Saudi King nor the Japanese Emperor thought for one second that Obama wasn't the most powerful guy in the room, just because he offered a traditional greeting.
Speak softly, carry a big stick.