The Imperial Household Agency plans to grant, with limits, decades-old requests from academics to make on-site surveys of Imperial mausoleums, agency sources said Thursday.</PARAGRAPH> <PHOTO> <TABLE WIDTH='250' ALIGN='RIGHT' BORDER='0'> <TR> <TD><IMG ALT='News photo' BORDER='0' SRC='../images/photos2007/nn20070921a5a.jpg' WIDTH='250' HEIGHT='280'/></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD><FONT SIZE='1'><B>The Mausoleum of Emperor Meiji –

in Fushimi Ward, Kyoto, is shown in this aerial photo taken Thursday. KYODO PHOTO

Representatives of 16 archaeological and historical societies will be allowed to inspect two Imperial mausoleums from February to March 2008.