Wedding bells for Princess Mako of Japan and Kei Komuro

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh no that’s too bad

Jfk jr failed two times. When Hillary Clinton failed the first time. The NY bar is pretty tough.

It can’t be easy to pass as a foreigner whose second language is English as well. But I mean - Mako could have waited a few weeks to get the results and marry him.

Didn’t she wait 4 years to marry him because of all the controversy about his mother? She was close to 30 years old-she had waited long enough. And anyway, you don’t choose a life partner based upon whether they passed an exam. Til death do us part…unless you fail the bar

[Anonymous]

That’s disappointing. He needs to take some time off to study and PASS next time. Prove to the naysayers that he can support his family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh no that’s too bad

Jfk jr failed two times. When Hillary Clinton failed the first time. The NY bar is pretty tough.

It can’t be easy to pass as a foreigner whose second language is English as well. But I mean - Mako could have waited a few weeks to get the results and marry him.

Didn’t she wait 4 years to marry him because of all the controversy about his mother? She was close to 30 years old-she had waited long enough. And anyway, you don’t choose a life partner based upon whether they passed an exam. Til death do us part…unless you fail the bar

She waited more like 7 years. They met and started dating in college.

That said, waiting a week wouldn't have hurt. He would have been guaranteed a mid-six figure job had he passed on October 31, 2021. There was no reason to rush to get married in an elopement ceremony that her parents refused to attend on October 26, 2021 (literally 6 days before his bar exam results released).

I mean...none.

He can't practice law anywhere in the U.S. without passing that exam. And she signed over an agreement to forgo $1.1 million in a wedding trust to rush to marry him. I don't know what they're surviving on living in UES Manhattan, she has no paid job and no visa to take one anyway, and he can't practice law.

[Anonymous]

And before someone says 'she might have been pregnant' - she wasn't. She hadn't seen Komuro in person in two years prior to the wedding thanks to the pandemic and his law school studies in the U.S.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Oh no, looks like Kei Komuro failed the bar again. Was rooting for him and them generally! How long can you be employed by a firm without passing the bar before they let you go?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10722971/Princess-Makos-commoner-husband-Kei-Komuro-fails-bar-exam-second-time.html

Now I understand why he is loathed in Japan!

Because he failed a test? I hope you don’t have kids because you sound scary.

Because he's a failure. I gave him the benefit of the doubt - being an 'outsider' even though he's a natural-born Japanese citizen - but the public might have been right on this one. He bucks tradition and can't provide for his wife? Bad look.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh no, looks like Kei Komuro failed the bar again. Was rooting for him and them generally! How long can you be employed by a firm without passing the bar before they let you go?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10722971/Princess-Makos-commoner-husband-Kei-Komuro-fails-bar-exam-second-time.html

Kei's mom told him to throw the exam to force the royal family's hand to help the couple

The Japanese palace hates him. No self-respecting man would do that. He can’t provide for his wife as it is - let alone to the standard of reverence of the imperial family.

Please, stop with the evil rumors. The Palace does NOT hate him, not at all. But he is making them lose face, and it's a national embarrassment that he did not succeed. The Japanese care deeply about those things. Thank goodness all this is happening in foreign parts, because it makes it less awkward. People will say: "Oh, he didn't know American ways, etc" to save face.

I really hope this charming couple can be happy and reasonably independent. It's very tough for a Princess raised like she was to start a whole new life, and it's always hard to know who to marry, who to trust, which friends are real friends, etc. I'm not sure this young man is up for it, and my greatest fear is that he won't take good care of her. It's the fear of every Japanese. But we all wish them well.

- Japanese

Umm, that is what hate means in this context. Would you prefer it written as 'The Japanese palace despises him and feels he is a disreputable subject to marry into their imperial family'?

They can't stand the man.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think the uproar was necessarily because of Mr. Komuro not coming from a wealthy family. Japanese society can not tolerate people who are dishonest, and unfortunately Mr. Komuro and his mother are perceived as such.

First, there is this vague explanation about his mother’s unpaid debt to her ex-fiancé, which partially went to Mr. Komuro’s expensive private college tuition. Also his 3 year living expenses in NYC while going to Fordham Law was magically paid by a Japanese law firm where he was a paralegal for brief period after quitting his first job.

If he’d been supporting himself financially and viewed as a hard worker even if he was not making good money, many Japanese could see princess Mako’s marriage to Mr.Komuro as “ beautiful royal romance: princess falls in love with a hard working commoner.” instead of suspecting and feeling unhappy about their tax used in such a wasteful way.

She should have just married a wealthy commoner. Or waited for him to have the job. Incredibly stressful for a couple. Even before kids. Love cannot conquer all.

[Anonymous]

I wish them the best and hope he doesn’t break her heart. While I applaud her choice to be married to the man she loves, he seems like a cad.

[Anonymous]

Good news! Komuro passed the NY bar.

https://fortune.com/2022/10/22/japan-princess-mako-husband-kei-komuro-passes-bar-exam/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good news! Komuro passed the NY bar.

https://fortune.com/2022/10/22/japan-princess-mako-husband-kei-komuro-passes-bar-exam/

I'm so glad! I hope they are doing well.

[Anonymous]

Good for him! His perseverance is admirable.