Kei Komuro, husband of the former Japanese princess Mako, has finally passed the New York bar exam.
Never two without three, they say. Kei Komuro did well to apply it. After two unsuccessful first attempts – in July 2021 and February 2022 – Mako’s Japanese husband, who had previously worked as a “lawyer” in a law firm, retried the New York bar exam last July. . And he did very well because, this time, there was success. As reported by the news agency,Reuters“, His name appears in the list of receipts, published on 20 October 2022.
Mako encouraged Kei to study in the United States
This should reassure the couple about their future, after being forced to leave Japan due to pressure from former Emperor Akihito’s niece and current Emperor Naruhito’s niece there, following her choice to marry the man who he had been heartbreaking for years but that was vilified by some Japanese. Especially since she had chosen, at the time of their marriage, of refuse the money the Japanese government was going to give him as was the tradition in matters of marriage of the women of the Imperial Household. A figure that could have risen to 152.5 million yen (1.17 million euros).
The eldest daughter of Prince Fumihito of Akishino – heir to the throne of the chrysanthemum since his brother succeeded his father in 2019 – and Princess Kiko married Kei Komuro, whom she had met at university, on October 26, 2021. Due to this marriage to a commoner, the young woman lost her title of princess and was excluded from the imperial family under the Imperial Household Act of 1947. At the press conference they heldon the day of their wedding formalization, Princess Kako’s elder sister and the Prince Hisahito -second in a row- she explained that it was she who encouraged Kei, her boyfriend at the time, to continue her studies in the United States in 2018 in view of their settlement there due to the hostility of many Japanese towards their couple.
