Former Japanese princess, Mako Komuro, has officials arrived in the U.S. with her husband to start a new life. The former member of the Japanese royal family gave up her life of luxury and ancient imperial tradition to live a relatively simpler life in New York.
The couple arrived in New York on Sunday. Footage of their arrival showed them flanked by security officials as they walked through New York’s John F. Kennedy airport and into a waiting vehicle. The two arrived in the country on board a commercial flight.
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Mako Komuro’s husband, Kei Komuro, attended law school in New York, and he is now working as a paralegal in the city. He reportedly met Mako Komuro while they were both attending university in Tokyo more than a decade ago. The two have reportedly already secured a place to live in New York, but its location has not been made public.
Mako Komuro, formerly Princess Mako of Akishino, was stripped of her royalty status after she decided to marry her “commoner” boyfriend. The union was banned under postwar succession laws as only male members of the imperial family were allowed to replace the emperor.
The niece of Emperor Naruhito married Kei Komuro, a graduate of the International Christian University, who she started dating in 2013. The two were wed in a private and intimate wedding in Tokyo last month.
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us
Their wedding was held in a muted fashion following years of public attention over a financial scandal involving Kei Komuro’s mother. Mako Komuro described the entire public spectacle as one that had caused her “pain and sadness.”
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During a press conference after their wedding, Mako Komuro talked about the scandal, stating that she felt sad and scared because the media had turned rumors into “groundless stories.”
When announcing her marriage to Kei Komuro, the princess made it clear that she wouldn’t let anything stand in their way of being together. The former princess said that she simply could not live without him and that marrying each other would be the only way for them to “live on.”
Kei Komuro mentioned after their wedding that he loved his wife and that they only had one life to live. He added that it is best to live that one life with the one he loved.
Public Scrutiny
After they became engaged in 2017, Kei Komoru’s family was heavily scrutinized by the media. It was then uncovered that his family had run into some financial difficulties, an issue that was blown out of proportion by the press. The issue led to the imperial family and most of the general public disapproving of the union.
Mako Komuro did not take the media attention very well, and following the revelation of the scandal, the Imperial Household Agency revealed that the princess was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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