I would be concerned, as long as he has these outstanding debts and is not established in his career that he cannot earn enough to support her without additional, ongoing assistance from the IF. And, that also leaves them susceptible to the type of scandals that have plagued many royal houses - cash for access, bribery, etc. I can understand how the Japanese public would find all of that as problematic unless resolved to everyone's satisfaction.
Thank you for your post, Sunnystar, I felt released and encouraged by it.
I suppose that you are a knowledgeable person with good intellectual appetite and practical way of thinking.
If you want to be well informed, your right-to-know should be respected to a maximum extent here, I believe.
Kikunohana, your posts is very confusing to me. In which part of my writing is contradicting yours? I do agree that the majority is against kei. But Savannah is not asking about that, right? "Why do that person seems obsessed?" Something along those lines. And I said "imperial watcher" as the answer. Proof:
Afterall, people who aren't interested in royalties won't be in this forum.
To be frank, I'm glad you and junjun are here. For the longest time many people here thought that the uber-conservatives are the ONLY ones against kei and mako.(Aiko, abolitionists, etc) I have difficulties in trying to inform them since I'm not japanese and I prefer to lurk. I'm glad that I don't have to do anything extra.
Also it's refreshing to see Aiko Tenno faction here. I want you and junjun to show there's "a fight for succession" currently going on.
What you guys posts here about kei and akishino family are not new to me. But still, I'm looking forward to seeing it for the second time in English, keep it up. It would be better too if the faction of akishino/hisahito is also here (alas they don't seem to be the type to care about foreigners opinion, from what I see on twitter), while I'm watching those "rap battles" with Ramin djawadi's game of thrones soundtracks and popcorn.
Well, polls show the Japanese public overwhelmingly supports the idea of a female emperor.
Over 80 % of people are proved to be favor for female emperor of male lineage,, which is interpreted as support for “Aiko Tenno”. And these results seem to have more certainty than “97% opposition to the marriage” since the researchs were conducted by random interview, not a web questionnaire.
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/...idea-of-japan-having-female-emperor-poll.html
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/e6c7ef3ca32ebecddd877da4ccc8ef2288547876?page=2
Any party or fraction is unlikely behind these overwhelming results. If you insist on it, you’re asked to provide evidences to support it.
Now I talk about myself. I’m an ordinary housewife in Japan who worked for a news agency for a while and worked as a business instructor for managers for more than ten years afterward.
When I was lying after a small operation this spring, one idea came to my mind that Komuro would hold his press conference in NY and says: “There is no freedom of marriage for Japanese princesses!” or something as Henry and Meagan did in a TV show.
Then, I started searching English text articles on the web, and found this forum.
No stories were found which describe this controversy in Japan exactly. And when I saw this forum, I was a little shocked and felt sad, as I mentioned before, for discussion here was too far from that in Japan. Many results of opinion polls, as well as the comment of our adorable Emperor Naruhito were ignored.
Dear readers and posters, how do you feel when your own nation is misunderstood?
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As far as this forum’s title is “Engagement between Princess Mako and Kei Komuro”, people here automatically expect something to celebrate, I believe. And it would have been driven when people are depressed under the coronavirus circumstances. It seemed that everything supposed to be inadequate to promote this marriage was ignored here.
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So I started posting here. I was obsessed, as someone said before, to make full explanation about this topic, since people here were so short of information. As long as this is a forum for respectable and intelligent people, they should be more informed before making discussion, I felt.
And now, regarding this marriage, my personal opinion is that:
Mako can be married with Komuro, after exit from IF, with smallest amount of lump-sum and without “female monarchy” , because she deserves him. She was proved to be a person who forces a poor old man to give up his money. And I don’t want to see her in official occasions any more.
As for Komuro,
I’d recommend him to be a celebrity in western world, maybe there are a lot of his fan. He can contract with Netflix or other sponsors and earn money to support Mako. It doesn’t matter for Japanese people, as long as we don’t have to hear of him. And if he and Mako disclosed some secrets of Akishino family, Japanese public would welcome it.
Isn’t it the way in which everyone become happy?
People in US won’t care about his reputation in Japan…