{"id":38363,"date":"2021-10-26T17:49:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T08:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/26\/japan-princess-mako-marries-loses-royal-status"},"modified":"2021-10-26T22:18:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T13:18:34","slug":"japans-princess-mako-marries-in-modest-ceremony-and-loses-royal-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38363","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Princess Mako marries and loses royal status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emperor Naruhito\u2019s niece and her college sweetheart make announcement at press conference<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s Princess Mako has lost her royal status after marrying her \u201ccommoner\u201d college sweetheart, Kei Komuro \u2013 a man she described as \u201cirreplaceable\u201d \u2013 while the couple voiced sadness over a scandal that has plagued their engagement.<\/p>\n<p>After years of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/25\/japan-royal-wedding-subdued-ritual-looms-as-princess-mako-marries-amid-controversy\">criticism<\/a> of their relationship that has left Mako struggling with her mental health, the couple announced at a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo on Tuesday that they had wed. They declined to take questions from reporters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/26\/japan-princess-mako-marries-loses-royal-status\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emperor Naruhito\u2019s niece and her college sweetheart make announcement at press conferenceJapan\u2019s Princess Mako has lost her royal status after marrying her \u201ccommoner\u201d college sweetheart, Kei Komuro \u2013 a man she described as \u201cirreplaceable\u201d \u2013 while the c&#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-38363","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\/38363","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=38363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38373,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38363\/revisions\/38373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}