{"id":38323,"date":"2021-10-25T09:43:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T00:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/25\/japan-royal-wedding-subdued-ritual-looms-as-princess-mako-marries-amid-controversy"},"modified":"2021-10-25T09:43:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T00:43:36","slug":"japan-royal-wedding-subdued-ritual-looms-as-princess-mako-marries-amid-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38323","title":{"rendered":"Japan royal wedding: subdued ritual looms as Princess Mako marries amid controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Princess\u2019s union to Kei Komuro has attracted public and media attention for all the wrong reasons<\/p>\n<p> It is perhaps fitting that the weather forecast is for cloud and drizzle in Tokyo on Tuesday, when Princess Mako \u2013 the eldest niece of Japan\u2019s emperor \u2013 will marry her college sweetheart in a subdued ritual marred by years of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/01\/princess-mako-wedding-announcement-creates-media-frenzy-in-japan\">criticism<\/a> of their relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the imperial backdrop \u2013 and a public craving for distraction after 18 months of the coronavirus pandemic \u2013 their nuptials will involve lots of paperwork and rather less festivity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/25\/japan-royal-wedding-subdued-ritual-looms-as-princess-mako-marries-amid-controversy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Princess\u2019s union to Kei Komuro has attracted public and media attention for all the wrong reasons It is perhaps fitting that the weather forecast is for cloud and drizzle in Tokyo on Tuesday, when Princess Mako \u2013 the eldest niece of Japan\u2019s emperor \u2013 w&#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-38323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38323","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=38323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38324,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38323\/revisions\/38324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}