When Prince Hisahito was born in 2006, ending a 41-year drought in imperial male heirs, Japan's government gladly dropped proposals that women might head the world's oldest monarchy, but a decade later the little prince remains the last hope for an unreformed Chrysanthemum Throne.
New Zealand Parliament on Wednesday scrapped the last archaic barrier that would prevent a woman taking over as the country's head of state.
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