According to a Japanese media report on October 26, that morning, Princess Mako, the eldest daughter of Prince Fumihito of Japan, and Kei Komuro registered their marriage, and Princess Mako officially left the imperial status and became “Mako Komuro.” The two will attend a press conference in the afternoon.
On the morning of October 26, Princess Mako and Kei Komuro filed their marriage applications and officially left the imperial status. In the afternoon, Princess Mako will attend the press conference with Kei Komuro as “Mako Komuro”.
A person from the Japanese royal family disclosed that Princess Mako will temporarily live in Tokyo after getting married, and will go to the United States to live with Kei Komuro after completing the relevant procedures.
Princess Mako and her college classmate Kei Komuro fell in love in the summer of 2012, and they described each other as being like “sun and moon”. The two have gone through 8 years of long-distance love, from sweet love, separation from a foreign country, scandal slander, postponement of marriage, public opposition to registration of marriage. On October 26 this year, Princess Mako and Kei Komuro, who had just passed their 30th birthday, officially registered their marriage. Mako will become a commoner with her naturalized husband.
Mako and Kei Komuro announced their engagement in 2017, but afterwards, it was reported that Komuro’s mother had a financial dispute with the other person, which caused the marriage to be postponed again and again. This marriage was not blessed by the Japanese people because of the money scandal of Kei Komuro’s family.
On October 1 this year, the Imperial Household Agency in charge of the Japanese Imperial Family announced that the two will register their marriage on the 26th and will not hold any marriage-related ceremonies such as weddings. Originally, Mako would receive a subsidy for leaving the imperial status due to marriage. She declined to accept it. According to media reports, there is no precedent in the history of the Japanese imperial family after the war.
Kei Komuro arrived at Narita Airport in Japan on September 27
Japan’s “Royal Model” stipulates that when a female royal family marries a commoner, they lose their royal status. In order to enable them to maintain their character as a royal family after marriage, the Japanese Imperial Family Economic Law stipulates that a tax-free subsidy called “lump sum” will be paid from national expenses. The limit is generally ten times the amount of living expenses of the royal family members in a year. The specific payment amount The decision was made by the “Royal Economic Conference” with the Prime Minister as the Speaker.
According to the above principles, when Princess Mako leaves the royal family, he can receive up to 155 million yen (approximately 8.56 million yuan) as a lump sum, which is the same as the former royal member Kiyoko Kuroda (the only daughter of the upper emperor Akihito and the upper empress Michiko) in 2005 The same amount of lump sum.
However, in the context of the Komuro family’s involvement in economic disputes, Mako declined more than 100 million yen in subsidies, and the Imperial Household Agency respected his decision. She became the first princess in Japan to give up the gold after World War II, and canceled all wedding ceremonies.
In August 2018, Komuro went to the United States to study law, and returned to Japan on September 27 this year after a lapse of more than three years.
The intrauterine office previously announced that Mako has been criticized for a long time due to marriage disputes and was diagnosed with “complex post-traumatic stress disorder” (Complex PTSD), which is a mental illness caused by long-term and repetitive trauma.
The Imperial Household Agency also stated that since 2018, Mako Princess has begun to feel unable to clarify the slander about herself, her family and her fiancé, her dignity has also been trampled, and she will repeatedly recall the past related to the trauma, “It is difficult for her to feel happy.” .
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