The use of the male pronoun above is deliberate, for the Chinese preferred their emperors to be male. This was one thing that was not modified in Japan. Although there were half of dozen reigning empresses in very early Japan, from 770 to the present only 2 females were to ascend the Japanese throne, both briefly and both in name only.
-Kenneth Henshall
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