{"id":37536,"date":"2021-10-01T17:32:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T08:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/01\/princess-mako-wedding-announcement-creates-media-frenzy-in-japan"},"modified":"2021-10-01T17:32:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T08:32:14","slug":"princess-mako-wedding-announcement-stirs-up-media-frenzy-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37536","title":{"rendered":"Princess Mako wedding announcement stirs up media frenzy in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marriage with non-royal Kei Komuro to take place against backdrop of scandal, tabloid intrusion and public disapproval<\/p>\n<p>When they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/may\/18\/princess-mako-japan-lose-royal-status-marriage-commoner\">announced<\/a> their unofficial engagement four years ago, they were cast as a perfect match: the young princess and the clean-cut trainee lawyer, for whom she was prepared to sacrifice her imperial status.<\/p>\n<p>Now the sound of wedding bells is within earshot, after the Imperial Household Agency announced on Friday that Princess Mako, the niece of Japan\u2019s emperor, would marry her non-royal fiance, Kei Komuro, on 26 October.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/01\/princess-mako-wedding-announcement-creates-media-frenzy-in-japan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marriage with non-royal Kei Komuro to take place against backdrop of scandal, tabloid intrusion and public disapprovalWhen they announced their unofficial engagement four years ago, they were cast as a perfect match: the young princess and the clean-cu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37537,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37536\/revisions\/37537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}