Japan’s Princess Kiko has developed complications with her pregnancy and may have to give birth to her third child by Caesarean section, Kyodo News agency reported.

THE Japanese royal family is set to change its succession laws to enable the three-year-old daughter of the current Crown Prince to become the first Empress for 200 years.

JAPAN’S Crown Princess Masako, under intense pressure to produce a male heir, has been diagnosed by doctors as having an adjustment disorder, a psychological condition caused by stress.