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Mako Komuro Isn't The First Female Scion of Japan's Royal Family To Have Suffered From Mental Stress

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November 10, 2021

Kristin Roebuck, EAP

“If you add up that legal disability that’s unique to the imperial family’s women, with the intense media scrutiny, and the incredible degree of control that they’re subjected to from a very conservative, elderly, masculine government, I think those women are exposed to pressures that would actually be unfathomable to most people in Japan, or outside Japan,” says Kristin Roebuck, assistant professor of history.

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