The Japanese government has responded to a United Nations committee's recommendation to revise a law that limits imperial succession to male offspring in the male line.

Japan is to freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel over its recommendation that Japan’s male-only imperial succession rule should be revised from gender-equality perspecti

Japan has hit back at a U.N. panel over its recommendation to revise the Imperial House Law by denying it access to the country's voluntary contributions to the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.