{"id":20758,"date":"2026-06-13T02:23:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/20758\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T02:23:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:23:36","slug":"emperor-naruhito-seeks-public-backing-for-an-imperial-family-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/20758\/","title":{"rendered":"Emperor Naruhito seeks public backing for an imperial family plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emperor Naruhito said Thursday he hopes a plan that wins public support regarding the number of imperial family members will be created.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope it will be something that gains the understanding of the people,\u201d he said at a news conference held at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo ahead of his official visits to the Netherlands and Belgium with Empress Masako from Saturday to June 26.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the leaders and deputy leaders of both chambers of parliament and political parties <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2026\/06\/10\/japan\/politics\/royals-parliament-draft\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">forged the Japanese legislative branch\u2019s consensus proposal<\/a> for securing a sufficient number of imperial family members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emperor Naruhito said Thursday he hopes a plan that wins public support regarding the number of imperial family&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,4297,4298,4251,13032],"class_list":["post-20758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-emperor-naruhito","tag-empress-masako","tag-imperial-family","tag-princess-aiko"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116740424308675619","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}