WI the Meiji Restoration permits female rulers?

Is there a way to get the Meiji Restoration to permit females as leader of Japan? Could figures like Queen Himiko or Empress Jingu be used as a sort of nationalist way to justify this?

Or is that entirely ASB?

Just a question I picked up from reading a book on Japanese history. :eek:
 
One would have to see the status of women within Japanese culture of the time. There could be exceptions, but I highly doubt a woman coming to any position of power or decision making at least before 1900.
 
One would have to see the status of women within Japanese culture of the time. There could be exceptions, but I highly doubt a woman coming to any position of power or decision making at least before 1900.

The Emperor wasn't really expected to make a lot of decisions in Meiji Japan. Japan just happened to have a couple of disastrous empresses in the past, so there was some sentiment against it, but there's no particularly strong reason why empresses shouldn't have been permitted - it may have been an imitation of usual Western practice.
 
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