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Viewing cable 06TOKYO5081, IT'S A BOY! FIRST GRANDSON FOR JAPAN'S EMPEROR

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06TOKYO5081 2006-09-06 09:06 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Tokyo
VZCZCXRO2081
OO RUEHFK RUEHKSO RUEHNH
DE RUEHKO #5081/01 2490906
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 060906Z SEP 06
FM AMEMBASSY TOKYO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 6072
INFO RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING PRIORITY 4052
RUEHUL/AMEMBASSY SEOUL PRIORITY 0183
RUEHFK/AMCONSUL FUKUOKA PRIORITY 7939
RUEHNH/AMCONSUL NAHA PRIORITY 0501
RUEHOK/AMCONSUL OSAKA KOBE PRIORITY 1280
RUEHKSO/AMCONSUL SAPPORO PRIORITY 9040
RHMFIUU/COMUSJAPAN YOKOTA AB JA PRIORITY
RUCPDOC/DEPT OF COMMERCE WASHINGTON DC PRIORITY
RUEATRS/TREASURY DEPT WASHDC PRIORITY
RHEHAAA/NSC WASHDC PRIORITY
RHHMUNA/HQ USPACOM HONOLULU HI PRIORITY
RHEHAAA/WHITE HOUSE WASHDC PRIORITY
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC PRIORITY
RUEHIN/AIT TAIPEI PRIORITY 6117
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 TOKYO 005081 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV JA
SUBJECT: IT'S A BOY!  FIRST GRANDSON FOR JAPAN'S EMPEROR 
 
REF: TOKYO 00821 
 
1.  Summary.  Japan's long wait for a male successor to the 
Chrysanthemum throne came to an end early on the morning of 
September 6, as Princess Kiko gave birth to the Imperial 
family's first male heir in 41 years.  His birth is likely to 
bring an end to any remaining debate on revising Japan's 
Imperial Household Law to allow females and matrilineal 
descendants to ascend the throne.  Public reaction has been 
overwhelmingly positive, notwithstanding some sniping about 
the costs of supporting the royal family in the media.  End 
summary. 
 
2.  Japan's Princess Kiko, wife of the Emperor's second son, 
gave birth to a boy on September 6, the first male heir to 
the Imperial throne born to the Emperor's immediate family 
since 1966.  The baby boy, weighing in at approximately 5.7 
pounds, was delivered by cesarean section at Tokyo's Aiiku 
Hospital at 08:27.  Princess Kiko's husband is Prince 
Akishino, 40, the second son of Emperor Akihito, 72.  The 
Emperor's eldest son, Crown Prince Naruhito, 46, has only one 
child, four-year-old Princess Aiko.  The new baby will stand 
third in line after his uncle and father, according to 
Japan's Imperial Household Law, while Prince Hitachi, the 
Emperor's brother, moves down to fourth.  The 1947 Law bars 
females, as well as males of matrilineal descent, from 
assuming the throne. 
 
3.  Some press reports this morning note that today's birth 
only postpones the looming succession crisis for Japan's 
23-member Imperial family.  Prior to today, only nine 
children had been born into the family in the past 40 years, 
and all were female.  With no male members of the Imperial 
family under the age of forty, and collateral noble families 
descended from earlier emperors excluded from the line of 
succession, there was a possibility that there would be no 
eligible successor to the throne after the deaths of Crown 
Prince Naruhito and Prince Akishino. 
 
4.  The Imperial Household Agency announced shortly after the 
birth that the newborn would receive approximately USD 25,000 
per year, the same as his two older sisters, ages 14 and 11. 
Prince Akishino receives ten times that amount, as stipulated 
by the Imperial Household Law, for purposes of "maintaining 
the royal dignity."  News reports this morning carried 
detailed data on the Imperial family's expenses and how they 
will be affected by the new birth. 
 
5.  Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Secretary General Tsutomu 
Takebe sent congratulations to the Imperial family on behalf 
of the ruling party, as did Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo 
Abe, likely next prime minister.  Opposition Democratic Party 
of Japan (DPJ) Secretary General Yukio Hatoyama hailed the 
birth as well, and called for a moratorium on further 
discussions of amending the succession provisions of the 
Imperial Household Law for the time being. 
 
6.  Prime Minister Koizumi announced on January 20 that he 
would submit a bill to the Diet to revise the Imperial 
Succession Law to allow females and their descendants to 
ascend the Chrysanthemum Throne.  Calling for "cautious 
discussion," he expressed his desire to gain unanimous 
approval for the bill in order to prevent the succession 
issue from turning into a political fight.  However, even 
many of his own LDP members did not support the bill.  Calls 
by Foreign Minister Aso and Finance Minister Tanigaki for 
more debate did not bode well for speedy passage. 
 
7.  In the end, Prime Minister Koizumi's decision to seek 
unanimous Diet approval made it more impossible to submit the 
bill after it the unexpected February 8 announcement that 
Princess Kiko was pregnant.  Chief Cabinet Secretary Abe 
publicly confirmed that the bill would be shelved on February 
10, after which debate seemed to die down almost completely, 
as most Japanese eagerly awaited the birth. 
 
8.  According to poll results published in the February 12 
Mainichi Shimbun, 78 percent of respondents were ready to 
 
TOKYO 00005081  002 OF 002 
 
 
accept a female monarch, with 52 percent in favor of revising 
the Law even if a male heir were born.  The Imperial family 
did not disclose in advance whether the child was a male or 
female this time, perhaps in hopes of avoiding the sort of 
national hysteria that surrounded the birth of Princess Aiko 
in 2001. 
SCHIEFFER