皇族確保、来週にも協議開始　額賀衆院議長

　額賀福志郎衆院議長は７日夜、議長公邸に与野党の幹部らを招き、皇族数の確保策に関する各党協議を来週にも開始したい考えを伝えた。複数の出席者が明らかにした。政府の有識者会議が２０２１年に提示した(1)女性皇族が結婚後も身分保持(2)旧宮家の男系男子が養子として皇籍復帰―の２案を中心に議論される見通しだ。（2024/05/07-22:51）

Japanese House of Representatives Speaker Fukushiro Nukaga said he hopes that interparty discussions on proposals to secure a sufficient number of Imperial Family members will be launched as early as next week, according to senior officials of ruling and opposition parties.
   Nukaga indicated the desire when he met with the senior officials at the Lower House speaker's official residence on Tuesday night.
   The interparty discussions are likely to center on the two proposals presented by a government expert panel in 2021 of allowing female members to retain their Imperial Family status after marriage and of allowing male members in the paternal line of former Imperial Family branches to be adopted into the family.
   The ruling Liberal Democratic Party has already submitted to Nukaga and House of Councillors President Hidehisa Otsuji its opinion supporting the two proposals as "necessary."
   The main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan argues that it is an urgent issue to allow female Imperial Family members to remain in the family after marriage.