Japan's Princess Mako to marry despite media frenzy, ongoing controversy
The couple first got engaged in 2017, but their marriage was postponed after a financial dispute between Komuro's mother and former fiancé.
But tabloid reports soon emerged about a financial dispute between a former fiancé of Komuro's mother, saying the mother and son had failed to repay a debt of about $35,000, and early in 2018 the marriage was postponed. In August that year Komuro departed to attend law school in the United States, and didn't return until Monday.
Mako will leave the royal family upon her marriage, as is customary. None of the ceremonies that usually accompany a royal marriage will take place, and the princess will forgo a one-off payment of a million dollars to which she is entitled, media reports have said. The scandal spread from tabloids to regular news media and gained still more life when imperial family members were prompted to speak out. Komuro himself issued a detailed statement this year.
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