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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 177246, member: 669&quot;]Chris, In English usage &quot;State&quot; can mean an independent country as well as a unit of a federation or confederation.&nbsp; I was following Krause, which refers to the multiple Germanic pre-empire countries as &quot;German States&quot; (with a capital &quot;S&quot;).</p><p><br /></p><p>The Japanese Diet recently abandoned discussions of changing its succession laws to allow a reigning Empress when the Crown Prince&#039;s younger brother had a son.&nbsp; The Crown Prince has only daughters.</p><p><br /></p><p>Japan has had reigning Empresses in the past, the most recent one having&nbsp; occupied the throne in the early-mid 17th Century, during the Kanei era, well known to numismatists as a period of very high production of brass cash coins, the &quot;Kanei Tsuho&quot; variety.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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