{"id":38927,"date":"2021-11-15T10:26:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T01:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/15\/japans-former-princess-mako-begins-new-life-as-commoner-in-new-york"},"modified":"2021-11-15T10:26:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T01:26:09","slug":"japans-former-princess-mako-begins-new-life-as-commoner-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38927","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s former princess Mako begins new life as \u2018commoner\u2019 in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mako Komuro arrives with husband in US, leaving behind her royal status after months of public outcry and frenzied media attention<\/p>\n<p>Japanese former princess Mako Komuro has arrived in the United States with her husband, Kei Komuro, swapping ancient imperial rites for the bright lights of New York after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/26\/japan-princess-mako-marries-loses-royal-status\">leaving the royal family<\/a> and relinquishing her royal title.<\/p>\n<p>The pair <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/26\/japan-princess-mako-marries-loses-royal-status\">tied the knot in Tokyo last month<\/a> in muted fashion, following years of public attention over a minor financial scandal involving Kei Komuro\u2019s mother, which Mako Komuro said caused her \u201csadness and pain\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/15\/japans-former-princess-mako-begins-new-life-as-commoner-in-new-york\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mako Komuro arrives with husband in US, leaving behind her royal status after months of public outcry and frenzied media attentionJapanese former princess Mako Komuro has arrived in the United States with her husband, Kei Komuro, swapping ancient imper&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,88,1298,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-new-york","category-us-news","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\/38927","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38928,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38927\/revisions\/38928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}