New heir to Chrysanthemum throne

At long (sexist) last, Princess Kiko finally gave birth to a son early this morning (September 6) shortly be 8 AM, Tokyo time. She plans on donating her son's umbilical cord blood to leukemia patients.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20060907x1.html
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20060906p2a00m0na045000c.html

Well, so much for the whole debate about whether or not they need to amend the law of theirs to allow females to take the throne, at least for now.

I read about it in Yomiuri ... funny thing is, most Japanese I speak to hush "it's all a waste of tax, the royal house" ... but you didn't hear that from me :sweat: