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Japanese empresses
There were eight female imperial reigns (Six female emperors including two who reigned twice) in Japan's early history, between 592 and 770, and two more in the early modern (Tokugawa)period. After many centuries, female reigns came to be officially prohibited only when the Imperial Household Law was issued in 1889 alongside the new Meiji constitution.
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