The ruling coalition and main opposition parties agreed Tuesday to call on the government to launch a debate on enabling princesses to stay within the imperial family by establishing family branches of their own after they marry commoners, as part of efforts to address the problem of a shrinking royal clan, a participant in their meeting said.Ending two-day negotiations, representatives of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party and the main opposition Democratic Party decided to put the idea in a special resolution attached to a forthcoming bill on Emperor Akihito's abdication…READ FULL ARTICLE
