Worldwide media coverage of onetime Japanese Princess Mako’s so-called “royal wedding” has it backward. Mako’s spartan civil ceremony, naked of pomp and circumstance, marks a reverse-storybook ...

TOKYO — Japanese Princess Mako is expected to relocate to New York after marrying her college sweetheart, Kei Komuro, without any of the usual fanfare Tuesday, according to multiple reports. Critics ...

Princess Aiko of Japan at her first public press conference.The Imperial Household Agency of Japan/Handout via REUTERS During her first public press conference, Princess Aiko of Japan praised her ...

The niece of the Emperor Naruhito and Kei Komuro's relationship has been met with backlash from the public and media Stephanie Petit is a Royals Editor, Writer and Reporter at PEOPLE. Japan's Princess ...

(CNN) — Japan’s Princess Mako has married her non-royal college sweetheart Kei Komuro in a subdued ceremony, formally marking her departure from the royal family. The couple submitted their ...

Japan’s former Princess Mako, who renounced her royal title to marry her college sweetheart, is reportedly volunteering at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in her new home of New York—a role that is ...

TOKYO, Japan — Japanese Princess Mako quietly married a commoner without traditional wedding celebrations Tuesday and said their marriage — delayed three years and opposed by some — "was a necessary ...

TOKYO — Japan’s ex-princess Mako, the emperor’s niece, departed the country with her new husband on Sunday to start a new life in the United States. Known as Mako Komuro after giving up her royal ...