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"Please call me 'Makoto Komuro'!"
Today (October 26) morning, with the eldest daughter of Emperor Naruhito's younger brother Prince Akishinomiya, the 30-year-old Princess Mako, under the farewell of her family Prince Akishinomiya and Princess Yoshiko, she submitted an application for marriage registration with her university classmate Kei Komuro from the palace through the Miyauchi Agency, indicating that she would officially break away from the status of a member of the imperial family and start a new life as "Komuro Makoto" in accordance with the relevant provisions of Japan's "Imperial Family Model".
According to Japanese media sources, the day before, Princess Mako made a special trip to the Sendong Temporary Imperial Palace in Takanawa, Tokyo, and visited her grandparents, Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, and bid them farewell before officially leaving the imperial family. As the first grandchild of Emperor Akihito, Princess Mako's marriage has many exceptions.
Princess Mako and Kei Komuro's relationship has not been favored by the Japanese people since the beginning, coupled with the economic disputes of the Kei Komuro family, the Japanese people have a lot of criticism of the marriage between the princess and the commoners, and the wedding of Princess Mako also broke the marriage customs of the Japanese female royal family since World War II, not arranging the traditional ceremony of the imperial family, but registering the marriage.
For this reason, the one-time subsidy paid by the state when a Japanese imperial woman leaves the imperial family is also not paid according to princess Mako's personal wishes.
After completing registration this morning, Princess Mako will attend a press conference with Kei Komuro at a hotel in Tokyo in the afternoon, but only speak live after the press conference begins, and will not answer reporters' questions on the spot. It is said that the reason for the cancellation of the reporter's question was "Mako's strong uneasiness", and the question raised by the reporter in advance "contained content that may make people mistake the wrong information for facts".
Princess Mako and Kei Komuro's marriage, can be described as a twist and turn, the two have signed a marriage contract since September 2017, originally wanted to complete the marriage in the following autumn, but the marriage had to be postponed because of external doubts, did not think that a delay is 4 years, when the outside world thought that there was no accident The two will end up breaking up, Princess Makoto issued a statement specifically, clearly stating that she would only marry Kei Komuro.
Princess Mako's marriage is also the first wedding of a female member of the Japanese royal family in nearly three years, in October 2018, the three daughters of the Takamotomiya family, Moriya Ayako, were married, and now with the marriage of Mako, the number of Japanese royal family members has been reduced to 17. This includes 5 men and 12 women.
Since the Japanese emperor has not passed on the male to the female, there are only 3 members who have the qualifications for the succession of the emperor so far, namely, the younger brother of Emperor Naruhito, who assumes the duties of crown prince, Prince Akishinomiya Fumihito, the first heir to the throne, Prince Yuhito, the son of Prince Akishinomiya Fumihito, the second heir, Prince Akishimi, and prince Masahito of Akira palace, the younger brother of the third heir to the throne.
After marriage, Mako will go to the United States with Kei Komuro, who has already joined a law firm in New York, and is hailed by the outside world as another special case in the world's existing royal family after Prince Harry and Princess Meghan of the British royal family.