THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 21, 2022 at 18:34 JST
Kei Komuro, the husband of Mako, the eldest daughter of Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko, has passed the New York state bar exam.
According to Yoshihiko Okuno, a lawyer practicing in Japan at a law firm where Komuro, 31, previously worked, Komuro phoned on Oct. 21 with the good news.
He passed on his third attempt at the bar exam.
He married Mako in October 2021, and the couple moved to New York the following month.
Komuro sat for the bar exam in July 2021 after graduating from a law school in New York and before marrying Mako, but he did not pass. He again took the exam in February and July of this year, when he finally passed.
The couple met at the International Christian University. They initially announced their engagement in September 2017, but a bombshell report in weekly magazines about financial problems bedeviling the Komuro family led to an announcement the following February that the marriage would be postponed.
They wed in October 2021 after a three-year delay.
Mako asked that all events traditionally associated with the wedding of a female member of the imperial family be waived.
She also refused a lump sum payment of 152.5 million yen ($1 million) to which she was entitled to help her make a fresh start after leaving the imperial family upon marrying Komuro.
Komuro, himself, resolved the financial problems between his mother and her former fiancé that had delayed the wedding plans.
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