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

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

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.

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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

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

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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.

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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

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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.