The government plans to include the official title of a reigning empress's husband in its bill to allow a female on the throne, government officials said Saturday.
Of Japan's few reigning empresses through history, none was married while on the throne.
After setting up a preparatory office last Thursday at the Cabinet Secretariat to draft the bill to revise the Imperial House Law, the government is planning to decide on the issue by around March, the officials said.
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