Answers To: Take Me To Your Leader By Terri Morrison and Wayne A. Conaway © Copyright 2008, All Rights Reserved ANSWER: FALSE. Although Japan has historically had male emperors, there had not been a male born into the Japanese royal family for some forty years....until September of 2006! The current heir to the throne, Crown Prince Naruhito, has a daughter as his heir, which might have forced the change in tradition. However, his brother Prince Akishino and his wife, Princess Kiko, had a baby boy who can theoretically become the next Emperor of Japan. The baby was named Hisahito, and he may be heir to the world’s oldest hereditary monarchy. True A,3; B,1; C,2 True. Aristide was suspended from the Salesian order in 1988 for his involvement in politics. B. Prime Minister Harper has been the head of government since February of 2006, but since Canada is part of the British Commonwealth, Queen Elizabeth is technically Canada's head of state. True . And in June of 2007, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, a member of the Labor Party, began to serve. C. Singapore, the smallest of these countries, has both a president and a prime minister. False. General Stroessner was deposed in 1989, after thirty-five years of dictatorial rule. B. True. However, she held office for only ten months. Labeled “incredibly maladroit” at politics, this controversial politician claimed that the Japanese were successful economically because of their “antlike qualities,” and declared that one in every four British men were “homosexuals” (presumably those who did not flirt with her). Subsequently, Ms. Cresson became a senior EU official, and in 2003, was charged with fraud and abuse of confidence by Belgian prosecutors.