Wedding bells for Princess Mako of Japan and Kei Komuro

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Anonymous wrote:Such grace under pressure and she appears to have found a real prince. The man moved halfway across the world to secure a livelihood for both of them and came back to marry her.

I love this picture of them. The way he looks at her. Oooh.

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Anonymous wrote:Mazel Tov!

Apparently he announced he was going to study Law in NY a few months after getting engaged and they haven’t seen each other in three years.

Three years is incredible. That their love was that strong. She fought for him and that marriage while surrounded night-and-day by courtiers who would have done anything to stop it.

She would be the ninth Japanese princess to be married to a “commoner”. Her own mother was a commoner. In Japan it was expected she would lead a private life as many of her predecessors have.

No one stopped her marriage but it seems her fiancée was reviled. I hope she has the happiest of endings and enjoys her privacy in NY.

The abuse is because he’s a poor guy.

My Japanese friend says the whole of Japan dislikes him because he and his mother seem sketchy. That’s brutal, but good for him for proving them wrong. Success is the best revenge!

It is a little early to conclude he is a great guy. They just got married. Time will tell.

I worry about the 3 years apart, and pressures that come from in-laws who may be undermining the union.

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A refreshing story of royal independence. Harry and Meghan should take note. It’s entirely possible to get a regular job and support yourself outside of a royal kingdom. The only option isn’t selling your soul to the media and bashing your entire family along the way as they would lol everyone to believe.

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Finishing law school and taking the bar exam in a foreign language is insanely hard. Vast majority of Americans couldn't accomplish those feats. Even harder if you're Japanese, where English just isn't practiced all that much.

Kudos to him. He will probably do very well for himself in NYC. It sounds like he's working for a Japanese white shoe law firm? Anyone familiar with this firm?

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What a backwards country, when it comes to gender equity. She is lucky to be rid of them (not to mention any daughters they might have).

<<The AP reported a panel of government-appointed experts are in discussion about the stable succession of the Japanese monarchy. But conservatives were reported to still be against allowing females to succeed the throne or permitting female members to head the royal family.

The latest marriage also saw Mako take her husband's surname, marking the first time she has had a family name. Most Japanese women are required to abandon their family name after getting married due to only one surname per married couple allowed by law.>>

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Anonymous wrote:Mazel Tov!

Apparently he announced he was going to study Law in NY a few months after getting engaged and they haven’t seen each other in three years.

Three years is incredible. That their love was that strong. She fought for him and that marriage while surrounded night-and-day by courtiers who would have done anything to stop it.

She would be the ninth Japanese princess to be married to a “commoner”. Her own mother was a commoner. In Japan it was expected she would lead a private life as many of her predecessors have.

No one stopped her marriage but it seems her fiancée was reviled. I hope she has the happiest of endings and enjoys her privacy in NY.

The abuse is because he’s a poor guy.

My Japanese friend says the whole of Japan dislikes him because he and his mother seem sketchy. That’s brutal, but good for him for proving them wrong. Success is the best revenge!

It is a little early to conclude he is a great guy. They just got married. Time will tell.

I worry about the 3 years apart, and pressures that come from in-laws who may be undermining the union.

Won’t all of the in-laws be in Japan? They’ve had years of undermining and pressure from the press and others in Japan. I’m hoping they enjoy a lovely honeymoon period in NYC. While they did just get married, they’ve known each other since they were students. Adversity against a common threat can often serve to create strong bonds.

It’s also possible that their in-laws support them privately — if not publicly.

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Anonymous wrote:What a backwards country, when it comes to gender equity. She is lucky to be rid of them (not to mention any daughters they might have).

<<The AP reported a panel of government-appointed experts are in discussion about the stable succession of the Japanese monarchy. But conservatives were reported to still be against allowing females to succeed the throne or permitting female members to head the royal family.

The latest marriage also saw Mako take her husband's surname, marking the first time she has had a family name. Most Japanese women are required to abandon their family name after getting married due to only one surname per married couple allowed by law.>>

The US is getting ready to repeal Roe vs Wade, without a doubt the biggest setback of women's equality in generations. Watch your high horse.

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https://www.lowenstein.com/people/attorneys/kei-komuro

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Anonymous wrote:I really don't understand how this family can look at 3 generations of women who have had massive emotional breakdowns, and yet maintain this level of rigidity. Her parents DIDN'T HUG THEIR DAUGHTER GOODBYE. That's cold.
I hope she makes lots of artsy friends in New York, and she and her hot husband have a great life.

My father is Japanese. He does not hug. In public, he always acts very appropriately. Please make an effort to understand different cultures, PP. The Japanese are not demonstrative people. I am sure the Imperial family loves all their children, just like I know my father loves me. But no one in Japan expected this loving family to act any differently than they have. It's just how it is.

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Mako has refused the public purse. There’s nothing to stop her family from quietly supporting her from behind the scenes.

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Anonymous wrote:What a backwards country, when it comes to gender equity. She is lucky to be rid of them (not to mention any daughters they might have).

<<The AP reported a panel of government-appointed experts are in discussion about the stable succession of the Japanese monarchy. But conservatives were reported to still be against allowing females to succeed the throne or permitting female members to head the royal family.

The latest marriage also saw Mako take her husband's surname, marking the first time she has had a family name. Most Japanese women are required to abandon their family name after getting married due to only one surname per married couple allowed by law.>>

The US is getting ready to repeal Roe vs Wade, without a doubt the biggest setback of women's equality in generations. Watch your high horse.

Oh yeah, things were much better when two people created the pregnancy but one of them got no vote about whether the would have to parent that child for the rest of her life.

Let's make America great again (for men who want to control women's bodies).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Congratulations to them! He seems like a good guy to me (went to law school, works hard, has a good job at a firm in NY) and I hope they are very happy.

I live in NYC and I am married to a man of Japanese descent. NYC is filled with Japanese ex-pats -- many of whom are here because they prefer the freer culture of NY rather than the oppressive conformist culture of Japanese -- writers, artists, but also just regular office professionals who chafe under Japanese society norms. I think Kei and Mako will fit in just fine here!

I was hoping there was a large expat community of Japanese in NYC. I want them all to embrace her and welcome her and also help her with the transition. I know she studied in England but its going to be a brutal experience going from a walled-off garden life in the imperial household to the concrete jungle of NYC and seeing homeless people sleeping outside your billion-dollar condo tower.

My best wishes to Mako and Kei and LOTS OF SONS. Stuff the IHA.

Lots of sons?????????????????

Uhm, it is 2021.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Mazel Tov!

Apparently he announced he was going to study Law in NY a few months after getting engaged and they haven’t seen each other in three years.

Three years is incredible. That their love was that strong. She fought for him and that marriage while surrounded night-and-day by courtiers who would have done anything to stop it.

She would be the ninth Japanese princess to be married to a “commoner”. Her own mother was a commoner. In Japan it was expected she would lead a private life as many of her predecessors have.

No one stopped her marriage but it seems her fiancée was reviled. I hope she has the happiest of endings and enjoys her privacy in NY.

The abuse is because he’s a poor guy.

My Japanese friend says the whole of Japan dislikes him because he and his mother seem sketchy. That’s brutal, but good for him for proving them wrong. Success is the best revenge!

How sketchy of her to be widowed.

And she was engaged to the many who gave her the money. Have any of you DCUM posters ever let a man fund your kid's education?? Did you pay him back?
Odd to look down on this in a culture that wants to keep women under men's boot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.lowenstein.com/people/attorneys/kei-komuro

Good firm. He sounds like he has a bright future.

It's so funny that there is this frenzy over him being unsuitable and he is..... a corporate lawyer. How much more staid can you get?

According to the NYT article, the objections included the fact that he had "shaggy" hair (gasp!), then a ponytail (gasp!), ate from food trucks (like every other midtown office worker!) (gasp!) and wore a pin-striped suit rather than a plain black or navy suit to the press conference.

Kudos to both of them for getting through this ridiculous circus with calm and grace. I probably would have overturned the table, given the press the finger and stormed out of there. Bye!

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Anonymous wrote:I really don't understand how this family can look at 3 generations of women who have had massive emotional breakdowns, and yet maintain this level of rigidity. Her parents DIDN'T HUG THEIR DAUGHTER GOODBYE. That's cold.
I hope she makes lots of artsy friends in New York, and she and her hot husband have a great life.

My father is Japanese. He does not hug. In public, he always acts very appropriately. Please make an effort to understand different cultures, PP. The Japanese are not demonstrative people. I am sure the Imperial family loves all their children, just like I know my father loves me. But no one in Japan expected this loving family to act any differently than they have. It's just how it is.

Did your father refuse to help get a good start in your life?

Did your father decide not to finance a wedding and send you straight to the judicial docket?

Did you father watch as you drove off TO YOUR WEDDING and just wave and go back inside the house?

Did your father act so embarrassed of you that he wouldn't let you do traditional wedding rites inside the temple (Mako was forced to worship outside in the courtyard)?

Please. The way the future Emperor has treated his oldest daughter is disgraceful. Traditions or not.