Tomorrow the Japanese princess Mako (30) will tie the knot with her teenage love and fiancé Kei Komuro (30). A civilian boy who marries a princess sounds like a fairy tale, but the Japanese don’t like the fact that the princess gives up her title for love.
As with Harry and Meghan in England, there has been criticism in Japan for years of the engagement of Princess Mako, daughter of Crown Prince Fumihito, and Kei Komuro, a lawyer at a large New York office. Mako and Komuro met in high school and have been in a relationship ever since. After a few delays, they finally get married tomorrow, after which Princess Mako loses her title and the couple will settle in New York. Here they want to live a life beyond the scrutiny of the critical Japanese media, who have made Komuro’s long locks a symbol of Mako’s mistakes.
The wedding will not be very festive tomorrow. In addition to the fact that the weather in Tokyo is to cry, the ceremony will mainly be handled professionally. The Japanese public does not warm to an exuberant royal weddingSo that’s what the bridal couple has to do with it.
Not perfect
It is more common for a woman in the Japanese Imperial family to give up her title to marry someone without blue blood. Three relatives preceded her. Women in the land of the rising sun have no claim to the ‘Chrysanthemum Throne’. Men do, by the way, so if they marry a civilian, there is nothing to worry about. Emperor Naruhito, for example, is married to Masako Owada, who before she became empress was a high-ranking diplomat, educated at the universities of Oxford and Harvard and of no noble background.
When Mako announced her engagement to Kei Komuro in 2017, nothing was going on. Things only went wrong when it became known in 2018 that Komuro’s mother had a dispute about her ex-fiancé’s money that she had already spent on her son’s study. The wedding was postponed for two years and from then on Japanese media reported only negatively about Mako and her fiancé. In fact, it got so bad that Mako would have suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.
The royal court of the imperial palace was also not pleased with Komuro. His nonchalant behavior, with frequent hands in pockets, made him unpopular. He was deemed unfit for marriage to a member of the Imperial family. A member of the Imperial House must be perfect, they say. But Princess Mako, a researcher at the Museum of the University of Tokyo, did not flinch.
rude ponytail
Mako’s family says they are disappointed with how things turned out. Mako’s father, Crown Prince Fumihito, brother of the Emperor, took up for his daughter last year and agreed to the marriage. “If they really want it, then I have to respect that as a parent,” Fumihito said. Former Empress Michiko says she is sad to see her granddaughter flee to New York.
Still, it was all to no avail. Even today, the Japanese population speaks out against the nonchalant Kei Komuro. His ponytail, for example, would say that he feels better than the rest – a short haircut in the East Asian country stands for uniformity and equality.
The couple skips some ceremonies. Mako has also refused the gift of about 860,000 euros that a woman normally receives when she gives up her title. Everything to settle down in New York as quickly as possible, because her dream is simple, she said in 2017: ,,To make a warm and nice family where everyone smiles.”
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