Japan’s Princess is Engaged
Princess Sayako, the 35-year-old only daughter of the Japanese emperor, is set to marry a commoner and leave the imperial family, Japanese media reported today.
The princess, informally known as Nori, is engaged to marry a Tokyo government official, 39-year-old Yoshiki Kuroda, next spring, the reports said.
Both graduated from the private Gakushuin University in Tokyo. Nori, youngest of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko’s three children, works at an ornithology research institute.
An Imperial Household Agency official said he could not comment on the reports before a formal announcement, which has been delayed to December out of consideration for victims of an earthquake in Niigata that killed about 40 people.
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