Mako (princess)

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Princess Mako (2015)

Princess Mako of Akishino ( Japanese 眞 子 内 親王 Mako-naishinnō ; born October 23, 1991 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese princess of the imperial family and the eldest daughter of Prince Akishino and his wife Kiko . Princess Mako is the first granddaughter of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko and the sister of Kako and Prince Hisahito, who is second in line to the throne .

Life

According to the tradition of the imperial family, Princess Mako attended the general Gakushūin private school (Japanese 学校 法人 学習 院 Gakkō Hōjin Gakushūin ), which was originally founded to educate the Japanese nobility . Even during her youth, Princess Mako achieved great popularity and achieved the status of Aidoru (for English idol ), which was rather unusual for members of the imperial family. In August 2006 she spent two weeks with a host family in Austria and in the same year made her first official appearance as a member of the imperial family.

She studied English at University College Dublin in 2010 and at the University of Edinburgh in 2012 and graduated from International Christian University in Tokyo in March 2014 , making her the first member of the imperial family who did not attend Gakushūin University . In 2011, when she came of age, she was awarded the Order of the Noble Crown, 1st class. In September 2014, Princess Mako traveled to England to study Museology at the University of Leicester . In December 2015 Mako started her first trip abroad without other members of the imperial family to Honduras and El Salvador .

Her duties as a princess include attending public events, religious ceremonies, and the prefectures of Japan, and receiving state guests. She is also active as honorary president of the Japan Tennis Association .

In May 2017, Japanese media reported about a possible engagement between Mako and her former classmate Kei Komuro ( 小 室 圭 Komuro Kei ); A spokesman for the Imperial Court Office confirmed rumors in this regard on May 16, 2017. According to the imperial tradition, the wedding ceremony should take place about one year after the official announcement of the engagement by the Court Office, which in this case took place on September 3, 2017. On February 6, 2018, however, Mako announced via a written statement published by the Imperial Court Office that the wedding would be postponed by two years to 2020 at her request. She justified this decision with inadequate preparations for the wedding as a result of the sudden news of the engagement by the press in May 2017. She also pointed out that she wanted to give priority to the planned abdication of Emperor Akihito and the subsequent accession to the throne by Crown Prince Naruhito in spring 2019 . After the marriage, Mako will lose her status as a member of the imperial family and her title of nobility under the Imperial Household Act .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Princess Mako to marry former university classmate; possibly next fall. In: The Japan Times . Kyodo News , September 3, 2017, accessed September 3, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Full text of Princess Mako's statement on the occasion of her wedding postponement. In: The Mainichi. Mainichi Shimbun , February 7, 2018, accessed February 7, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Mako
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 眞 子 内 親王 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION japanese princess
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo