Prince Hisahito

The Emperor of Japan has one child, a daughter. The younger brother has a son, 20. Japan has had empresses (and the imperial family traces itself to goddess Amaterasu), but succession, currently, is male only. This is a big problem for conservative forces in Japan. To return to Prince Hisahito, the nephew of the Emperor: a dragonfly enthusiast, in HS he co-published an article about dragonflies at the Imperial estate in Tokyo. There's been some criticism (deserved) of that, and of his first solo press conference (not so deserved), held recently. Here's a sampling of the enlightened commentariat at Japan Today.