NEW - Japan's revised Imperial House Law enforcing male-only succession takes effect today, meaning that Emperor Naruhito’s only child, 24-year-old Princess Aiko, remains ineligible to become empress, and any children she has in the future will also be barred from the succession.

The revised law allows certain distant male relatives from former imperial branches to be adopted into the family.

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