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Princess Mako’s Revolution

Japanese monument
December 20, 2021

Kristin Roebuck, EAP

“It’s really striking to me when I look at family forms and how the royal family is this bastion of older norms that no one else in Japan is required to live by,” says Kristin Roebuck, assistant professor of history. “Why is it that the lawmakers who govern that institution think it’s so important that they want to maintain gender inequality at the highest symbolic level of society?”

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