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Japan's Princess Mako is giving up her royal status -- all in the name of love.
The groom-to-be is a prince himself ... of sorts.
The Imperial Household tells CNN plans are underway for the 25-year-old princess, granddaughter of Emperor Akihito, to become engaged to Kei Komuro, also 25, a law firm worker and graduate student who once starred in a tourism campaign as "Prince of the Sea."

The couple met five years ago as students at the International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan's national broadcaster NHK reported.
It was while in university that Komuro played the "Prince of the Sea" in a beach tourism campaign for the city of Fujisawa, south of Tokyo.


http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/17/asia/japan-princess-mako-getting-married/index.html

This is no exception. In history many such examples were. For example in Britain. Also, I think that being a monarch is not a very good lesson. Modern monarchs have no powers but responsibilities are many. Why waste life on useless ceremony.

I guess she was disappointed with the royal life, after the birth of Prince Hisahito of Akishino. Before that, it was widely speculated that she would one day be named as the empress. After it became clear that she would never became the empress, she gave up the royal privileges.

There are many similar examples that show that love is much more valuable than any statuses and privileges.

In Japan, the royal family has been a figure of the government but not have that much power than it really has a long time ago especially after they lose the World War II.


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Also it is good to know that the status they have, the previlege they embraced does not let herself be intoxicated with this. A sacrifice like this for her partner really speaks a lot and mostly if not all are giving a positive view in this.

The Japanese royal family may be the most endangered of its kind in the world. There are just four individuals in the line of succession for the throne, and only one of them is less than 50 years old. Perhaps they should seriously consider adopting members from the other royal families (a practice which they abandoned during the allied occupation after the WW2).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_of_succession_to_the_Japanese_throne

I think its high time that someone should his or her title because they want to marry someone who is not of royal bloodline. I really admire the princess for having the courage to do that.

She was very wise. All the privileges she will remain and she will live a normal human life. Remember the last years of her life Princess ? Why repeat its mistakes. I do think that the monarchy is a vestige of the past and very soon they will disappear.

Well the princess probably knows what will make her happy thoughout her life and that's not anything that royalty can give. Happy for her and her soon to husband though. And she most likely would be better off with a title and all the pressure and responsibilities it entails.

It is not a big deal nowadays. Apart from a few nations such as Thailand, Bhutan and Swaziland, the ruling families don't have much power. In Japan also, the royal titles are for namesake only. Anyone can insult the emperor and get away with it (don't try doing the same in Thailand). The princess was fed up with the palace life, and she wanted change. I just hope that this relation will not end in divorce.

Or maybe they would consider disappearing as they're just completely useless people actually costing money to the country.

She just want to live a normal life that's all. It's not always happily ever after for a princess. They just have little or no influence to Japanese, they just carry a nominal title in their country. Yeah. I hope she find the perfect love and not end in divorce indeed. There are also similar love story like this in history, so this is nothing new. I don't know what the reaction of the royal family though. I guess they will not stop the princess from making her own decision, specially about love.

I think she's making a big mistake. Love doesn't last, people drift apart and change over time. I think in 10 years she will be regretting her decision.

Anyways, the guy should be ashamed. He's taking Japan's princess for himself. Someone may not like this idea and decide to samurai sword his ass.

Even if the relationship doesn't survive, she's doing herself a vast favour by abandoning imperialness.

It must be a giant pain up the arse having your every move scrutinised and having to be interested in some granny's flower arranging when all you want to do is get stoned at home and play GTA V.

Real love can live forever. In any case, she did the right thing, because she got rid of this obsessive need for all sorts of unnecessary trips.

Still, they are right that the law is stupid. Her grandfather married a commoner and he didn't have to renounce his title.

It's true that she doesn't lose anything but a meaningless title. I'd prefer that too from living the rest of my life with someone I don't like, but had to marry because the family chose for me.

Royal title is not that important when it has no real power behind it. It is money which gives you real status nowadays anyway.

It would be much harder for her, or anyone, if instead of royal title they need to give up all money and work like normal people.

Money = real power. It is not Middle Ages anymore to care about empty titles.

In Japan, the male members of the royal family can marry a commoner. This commoner lady will be later adopted to the royal family. Such privilege is not available for the women members. This has been the tradition for the past thousands of years.

Love makes all the common sense of man.!!!

That is the name of love that is far from precious position and status and many other privileges of love.

For me, it is a mark of a sacrifice for she is choosing her heart/love rather than richess and fame. It is a humble attitude for a Princes to give up of her crown for the person whom she love. Let us just consider her reasons; she love the person so much and same way she needed privacy thats all. having a simple and private life is how a tired known personality long for now a days. so let us respect her decision and let her learn her lessons from her decision.

Too early to say that. Japan is now a democracy (after the WW2, the western powers overthrew the emperor), with the Royals having hardly any power. If Japan was an absolute monarchy just like Thailand or Saudi Arabia, then in all probability the princess would have chosen her royal status over her love interest.  

Well I am kind of happy for her finding love and deciding to marry outside of the nobility, everyone even royalty should be free to choose who they wish to marry and I hope she finds happiness. That said maybe it's time she keeps her royal status and they change Imperial household law.

The Japanese royal family has been ruling that nation ever since BC 600, and they don't change the rules very often. In 2005, they actually debated about changing the succession laws, but after the birth of Prince Hisahito in 2006, all this was dropped.

There have been talks about changing the laws to allow female members of the royal family to retain their status when marrying commoners. I think that's practical if they want greater chances of producing an heir.

Not that I care much anyway, I'm not quite fond of royalty.


True. For a long time the nobility in many countries has stuck up their noses at the merchant class, looking at them as no better than just peasants with better nutrition. In fact in Japan prior to modernizing, sumptuary laws ensured that merchants would have a hard time enjoying their hard-earned money that they ended up splurging all their cash on extravagant dishes instead!  >:(

Those days are over, the merchant class rule the world now. Take that nobles!  ;D


I didn't bother opening the link but aside from the royal family, do Japan still have a nobility like they do in England where the royal family can marry into?

I have read this news 2 days ago and was also shock about this news and also find it unfair when i also read that if this situation happens on a guy royalty he would not lose his royalty

The rules have been followed for the past 2,600 years and they don't want to change it. According to the rules, only someone with royal blood paternally must be admitted to the royal family. So if a female royal member marries a commoner, then she has to forfeit her status. Anyway, it is up to the Japanese to decide whether they want to change these rules or not.

That's pretty sweet! Unless she hated her status that is.

Wow, this is on of the perfect example of true love. Being a princess is a gift and hard to let go but for this girl, she did it easily because of love. More power to this girl. You don't see this everyday guys.

As far as I understand, she didn't had any other choice. The Japanese royal family is composed of a handful of people, and there are no unmarried males of marriageable age. So she had two choices - remain unmarried and keep the royal status, or to marry and lose the royal privileges.

Read this news a few weeks ago and I think it's wonderful that many people still believe in true love and happy endings. The beautiful young woman has given up her throne to be with her true love.  Sounds more like a love story drama than a fairytale. But in the end love conquers all.   ;)

Nice for her and I like her spirit by not go in away of royalty and money but in the way of love and happiness. Really, the scripture is right when said love think no evil, love is long suffering, love is 'kind and love is not puff off. May God bless her home.

It seems to me that she will regret it. She left traditions of her kind. It is not right. In it, the blood of kings flows and this must be appreciated. And love is just an invention

I think thus kind of bitter thinking is for people who had their hearts broken. Everyone should have a choice of who to love and how to live their lives in whatever that makes them happy. I'm sure there eon't br any regrets here. She may regret it if she did otherwise though.

Happiness don't come from title and apparently she has been able to define that into her life. It is good for her finding what makes her happy, so her royal status doesn't change that. Nevertheless, for love? This is even little compared to what some other people have done in the past. Only God knows what the future holds, so we can't say if she made a mistake or not and I hope the prince is much in love as she is. Hopefully she finds true happiness at the long run as well.

This act of the Japanese Princess is certainly worthy of respect, but only sorry that she can't know where it will end. Love she comes and goes, but to abdicate once. Sorry if her marriage falls apart and she will regret her action.

I'm adore her braveness to fight for love, to choose love over money and power. Its not easy to sacrifice the things she use to in the name of love.

Its totally true that love is blind. In love you need to sacrifice even your status to be happy to your partner. What a great true love. Someday I will have this kind girl and its cool to have this kind of girl.

She is not going to lose much. The royal family members receive an annual pension from the Japanese government, but they have no real power. Compare this to what they have in Thailand. Someone was just jailed for insulting the king's dog there.

Still he became a prince before.  Lol.  It is not about the state of life to fall in love.  As they say love conquers all and that does not exempt the princess of Japan.  It is not that fairytales like that could happen.  Ordinary man falls inlove with the princess.  After all he is a lawyer so it means he have a career ahead of him.  Good way to start a family.

I am not sure about the Japanese nobility, but if I am not wrong, then Japan used to have 12 branches of the Royal family until the end of the WW2. But after the surrender of Japan, all but one of these branches were dissolved.

This is a great example of love being unconditional. Setting aside status for love is what I idolized. People nowadays are only after looks and status. So I really adore the princess.

Status in life doesn't matter whether you are a princess or not, an ordinary person or an idol once you love someone it doesn't matter at all the guy must be lucky to be marrying a princess. Also modern monarchy has no power over their countries before in the medieval era it may have but times change modern monarchy are nothing but traditions and responsibilities, i guess the country wants to maintain those tradition in order for the future generations to remember their history. Someday i want to visit japan to witness their beautiful traditions.

The princess relinquishes his royal status to love, which is absolutely the case. Because love has an invisible power that draws us to the one we love. You must remember Romulus and Juliet that they use death to get love and eliminate hatred. Geography, money is nothing if not love.

"Royalty", haha what a funny ridiculous concept in the year 2017  :D  "Royalty" was dealt a death blow the day scientists discovered that a female contribute 50% of the DNA her newborn son/daughter will have, not 0% as was previously thought. It is known that the ancients believed the sperm of a man to be like the "seed" (as in plant seed) sown into the fertile "soil" of his wife's womb, herself only providing nutrition and nurturing and caring but zero consistency of the baby in making. This belief has led to the tradition where the male royal will never forfeit his royalty because it was thought that he could marry any woman, but she will only be the fertile ground of his royal blood line, himself providing 100% of the line to continue, hahaha  ;D  Vise versa, any female royal marrying any man outside of royalty, forfeits the royal bloodline, because again, it's believed she's only the ground for growth, so she can't pass on anything, unlike the eternal kingly sperm of a royal male,  ;D :D.

It is strange (and really funny) that still in 2017 you have so called "Royals" all around the globe still not acknowledging the basic facts that science have established and continue with their nonsense, discriminating and belittling not only against the female gender in their "royal" families, but against all females in the totality of their "royal kingdoms".

Wow i admired this princess.she fight for love.and she chose to be happy to marry someone that she loved.love is unconditional.this is a prof that love really exists:)

People do stupid things in the name of love,being born into Royalty in some ways is a kind of prison, there are lots of things that royals are not permitted to do all in the name of nottarnishing the name of the family. There is no real freedom whatsoever and what every human being really wants is to be free.

These Japanese royals should learn something from their counterparts in Saudi Arabia. The Arab royals travel to every nook and corner of the world, and indulge in all sort of perverseness and debauchery. Examples here:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/la-cops-saudi-royal-may-have-raped-5-women
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3361640/Saudi-millionaire-cleared-raping-teenager-telling-court-accidentally-penetrated-18-year-old-tripped-fell-her.html

It sounds like fairy tail to me, but its true. And I'm perfectly happy about it in real life love story. We do hear many stories how do love change everything, and being in royal position with royal blood doesn't excuse you to being truly "inlove". and be "stupid" once in your life.

Love exceeds beyond your comprehension. It is greater than any riches, privelages, and royalties. Love lasts a long time and by that it produces something new between the two lovers, continuing and making our kind thrive in existence. Royalties dont last for a long time, it fades away and leaves you with nothing but regret

Sounds like a fairytales story, I think the Princes reason why she gave up her royal status is, she really love the guys whole heartedly. So it doesn't matter for her status as a princes. Or it could be that the princes is not that happy anymore being a part of the royal blood to their kingdom.

You overlooked another important factor. There are no eligible bachelors within the Japanese royal family right now. So if she wanted to remain as a royal, then she must have to avoid marriage. She chose a married life over 90 years of loneliness. 

It's always an issue when a rich person marries an ordinary one especially if the girl is the one who is wealthy but for me it shouldn't. Love should be equal and we have the right to choose who we want and not the people around us or even our parents.