October 30, 2024: Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi speaks at a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 30, 2024, after Japan lodged a protest with a U.N. human rights watchdog that had called for reviewing a domestic law that limits imperial succession to male heirs on the emperor's father side. (Kyodo).==Kyodo. (Credit Image: © Kyodonews via ZUMA Press)