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Anonymous wrote:Could someone explain. There’s the Japanese royal family but then is there a whole level of aristocracy from whom they normally choose their mates?

After WWII the emperor was striped of all his power and 11 out of the 12 branches of royalty lost their titles.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in Japan it is impossible for a royal to marry another royal because the pool is so small and they're all first cousins.

Most of them marry commoners, that wasn’t the issue. This guy was poor and his single mother financed his college education with money from an ex lover. Unfortunately they got a reputation and it stuck, the whole country dislikes them with a passion.

There is also a theory that her father is playing the part of disapproving of the marriage but secretly her family financed his law school so to create a path for the couple to get out of there.

Kei Komuro won a full-ride scholarship on his own merits. And he's recently won a New York State Bar Exam award for his legal writings. He's smart.

Kei Komuro, a paralegal at the Okuno & Partners law firm in Japan, will attend Fordham Law School starting in August. Mr. Komuro and Japan’s Princess Mako announced in September 2017 that they plan to marry.

Mr. Komuro has received the Michael M. Martin Scholarship. The Martin Scholarship is a merit scholarship covering the full cost of tuition from Fordham Law based on his strong academic and other credentials. The Martin Scholarship is not a loan and does not need to be repaid. He will enter the law school’s one-year LL.M. program and then hopes to continue for two more years to receive a J.D.

Fordham Law isn’t that great a school. They do give away a lot of scholarship money though.

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Anonymous wrote:Could someone explain. There’s the Japanese royal family but then is there a whole level of aristocracy from whom they normally choose their mates?

After WWII the emperor was striped of all his power and 11 out of the 12 branches of royalty lost their titles.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in Japan it is impossible for a royal to marry another royal because the pool is so small and they're all first cousins.

Yes, and females who do not marry royalty cannot hold their titles. This was a deliberate rule put in place to slowly extinguish the Japanese royal family.

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Anonymous wrote:Could someone explain. There’s the Japanese royal family but then is there a whole level of aristocracy from whom they normally choose their mates?

After WWII the emperor was striped of all his power and 11 out of the 12 branches of royalty lost their titles.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in Japan it is impossible for a royal to marry another royal because the pool is so small and they're all first cousins.

Most of them marry commoners, that wasn’t the issue. This guy was poor and his single mother financed his college education with money from an ex lover. Unfortunately they got a reputation and it stuck, the whole country dislikes them with a passion.

There is also a theory that her father is playing the part of disapproving of the marriage but secretly her family financed his law school so to create a path for the couple to get out of there.

Kei Komuro won a full-ride scholarship on his own merits. And he's recently won a New York State Bar Exam award for his legal writings. He's smart.

Kei Komuro, a paralegal at the Okuno & Partners law firm in Japan, will attend Fordham Law School starting in August. Mr. Komuro and Japan’s Princess Mako announced in September 2017 that they plan to marry.

Mr. Komuro has received the Michael M. Martin Scholarship. The Martin Scholarship is a merit scholarship covering the full cost of tuition from Fordham Law based on his strong academic and other credentials. The Martin Scholarship is not a loan and does not need to be repaid. He will enter the law school’s one-year LL.M. program and then hopes to continue for two more years to receive a J.D.

Fordham Law isn’t that great a school. They do give away a lot of scholarship money though.

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Anonymous wrote:Could someone explain. There’s the Japanese royal family but then is there a whole level of aristocracy from whom they normally choose their mates?

After WWII the emperor was striped of all his power and 11 out of the 12 branches of royalty lost their titles.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in Japan it is impossible for a royal to marry another royal because the pool is so small and they're all first cousins.

Most of them marry commoners, that wasn’t the issue. This guy was poor and his single mother financed his college education with money from an ex lover. Unfortunately they got a reputation and it stuck, the whole country dislikes them with a passion.

There is also a theory that her father is playing the part of disapproving of the marriage but secretly her family financed his law school so to create a path for the couple to get out of there.

Kei Komuro won a full-ride scholarship on his own merits. And he's recently won a New York State Bar Exam award for his legal writings. He's smart.

Kei Komuro, a paralegal at the Okuno & Partners law firm in Japan, will attend Fordham Law School starting in August. Mr. Komuro and Japan’s Princess Mako announced in September 2017 that they plan to marry.

Mr. Komuro has received the Michael M. Martin Scholarship. The Martin Scholarship is a merit scholarship covering the full cost of tuition from Fordham Law based on his strong academic and other credentials. The Martin Scholarship is not a loan and does not need to be repaid. He will enter the law school’s one-year LL.M. program and then hopes to continue for two more years to receive a J.D.

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Anonymous wrote:Could someone explain. There’s the Japanese royal family but then is there a whole level of aristocracy from whom they normally choose their mates?

After WWII the emperor was striped of all his power and 11 out of the 12 branches of royalty lost their titles.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in Japan it is impossible for a royal to marry another royal because the pool is so small and they're all first cousins.

Most of them marry commoners, that wasn’t the issue. This guy was poor and his single mother financed his college education with money from an ex lover. Unfortunately they got a reputation and it stuck, the whole country dislikes them with a passion.

There is also a theory that her father is playing the part of disapproving of the marriage but secretly her family financed his law school so to create a path for the couple to get out of there.

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Anonymous wrote:Could someone explain. There’s the Japanese royal family but then is there a whole level of aristocracy from whom they normally choose their mates?

After WWII the emperor was striped of all his power and 11 out of the 12 branches of royalty lost their titles.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in Japan it is impossible for a royal to marry another royal because the pool is so small and they're all first cousins.

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Anonymous wrote:Could someone explain. There’s the Japanese royal family but then is there a whole level of aristocracy from whom they normally choose their mates?

After WWII the emperor was striped of all his power and 11 out of the 12 branches of royalty lost their titles.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in Japan it is impossible for a royal to marry another royal because the pool is so small and they're all first cousins.

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!

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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.

Anonymous wrote:Could someone explain. There’s the Japanese royal family but then is there a whole level of aristocracy from whom they normally choose their mates?

Anonymous wrote:Poor thing. If the marriage does not work, she will be all alone