{"id":2380679,"date":"2026-04-20T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2380679"},"modified":"2026-04-20T04:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:00:13","slug":"japanese-princess-who-gave-up-royal-life-for-commoner-spotted-in-fairfield-county-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/japanese-princess-who-gave-up-royal-life-for-commoner-spotted-in-fairfield-county-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Princess Who Gave Up Royal Life For Commoner Spotted In Fairfield County: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mako and Kei Komuro. \u2014 \u5916\u52d9\u7701\/\u5bae\u5185\u5e81\u30db\u30fc\u30e0\u30da\u30fc\u30b8 Wikipedia<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

A Japanese princess who gave up royal life to marry a commoner was spotted out and about in Connecticut over the weekend, the NY Post exclusively reports.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Post shared photos from Mr. Owl of Mako and Kei Komuro with their baby at a Fairfield County bakery, cheese store, and supermarket. The outlet did not say which down they were in. Town & Country Magazine<\/a> previously reported that the couple purchased a $680,000 home in Connecticut.<\/p>\n

Mako Komuri, formerly Mako Akishino, is the oldest daughter of Japan’s\u00a0Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko;\u00a0niece of Emperor Naruhito; and granddaughter of Emperor Emeritus Akihito. As per\u00a0Imperial Household Law, she lost her title in 2021 when she married her commoner husband, a global trade counselor at the NYC law firm Lowenstein Sandler.<\/p>\n

According to his bio on his company’s website<\/a>, Kei is a Fordham Law graduate who earned his J.D. in 2021 and received the Archibald R. Murray Public Service Award. He also holds an LL.M. from Fordham (cum laude), a master\u2019s degree from Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, and a bachelor\u2019s degree from International Christian University, where he made the Dean\u2019s List.<\/p>\n

Before joining Lowenstein, he worked in Tokyo at both a law firm and a foreign exchange bank, where he was a certified securities broker representative assisting corporate clients with loans, foreign exchange services, and financial analysis.\u00a0He began his career supporting startups and entrepreneurs through legal internships in New York, including Fordham\u2019s Entrepreneurial Law Clinic, where he earned special recognition. He also won first place in a New York State Bar Association business law writing competition for his work on website accessibility and its impact on entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n

Mako gave up her royal title and became a commoner in 2021 when she married Kei and refused the Japanese government’s taxpayer-funded payment of nearly $1.3 million. She lived in Tokyo before moving to New York City with Komuro.<\/p>\n

Click here for photos of the Komuros from the NY Post.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.aol.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mako and Kei Komuro. \u2014 \u5916\u52d9\u7701\/\u5bae\u5185\u5e81\u30db\u30fc\u30e0\u30da\u30fc\u30b8 Wikipedia A Japanese princess who gave up royal life to marry a commoner was spotted out and about in Connecticut over the weekend, the NY Post exclusively reports. The Post shared photos from Mr. Owl of Mako and Kei Komuro with their baby at a Fairfield County bakery, cheese […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2380680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[432122,398414,398413,398408,463583,463585,463586,463582,463584,463581],"class_list":["post-2380679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-commoner","tag-crown-prince-fumihito","tag-crown-princess-kiko","tag-emperor-naruhito","tag-fairfield-county","tag-fordham-law","tag-japanese-princess","tag-kei-komuro","tag-lowenstein-sandler","tag-mako-akishino"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Japanese-Princess-Who-Gave-Up-Royal-Life-For-Commoner-Spotted.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2380679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2380681,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380679\/revisions\/2380681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2380680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}