Japanese Imperial Family Today

  On April 27, the Shoryo Department of the Imperial Household Agency registered the fact that Mako, 30, the eldest daughter of Prince and Princess Akishino, who married on April 26, had left the status of the Imperial Family in the Imperial Register.   　 Yasuhiko Nishimura, director-general of the Imperial Household Agency, and Yoshifumi Nomura, head of the Shoryo Department, signed the pages on which Mako's status was written as follows: "On February 26, she left the status of the Imperial Family" and " This is due to her marriage to Kei Komuro.”   　 The IF Record has two parts: the "Daito-fu" for the emperor and empress, and the "Kozoku-fu" for other members of the imperial family. Mako's matters are listed in the Kozoku-fu for the descendants of the emperor. The Shoryo Department keeps the official copy, and the Ministry of Justice has a duplicate copy.

    On the 26th, the marriage of Kei Komuro to Mako, the eldest daughter of the Akishino family, was consummated, but Kei's mother, Kayo, did not offer any comments.   As for Kayo, on the 6th of this month, a freelance journalist filed a complaint with the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office regarding two "illegal payments" (which were later returned and are now being prepared for resubmission). https://jiftoday.blogspot.com/2021/10/kei-komuros-mother-criminally-charged.html 　   One of the "fraudulent payments" is a survivor's pension that Kayo received after her husband's death. For more information on Kayo's survivor's pension, click here https://jiftoday.blogspot.com/2021/06/regarding-komuros-mothers-alleged.html 　   The other is the illegal receipt of sickness and injury benefits. Injury and sickness allowance is a benefit that you can receive from your health insurance association when you are unable to work d

    On the 26th, the day of the marriage of Kei Komuro to Mako, 30, the eldest daughter of the Akishino family, there was a protest demonstration against the marriage in Tokyo. According to "Bunshun Online," about 120 demonstrators gathered at Hibiya Park at 11 a.m. and marched 1.7 kilometers from Hibiya to Ginza for 40 minutes.   　 The demonstrators walked with various message cards such as "Stop the farce conference," "Don't allow the overflow of imperial privileges," "NO KOMURO, don't allow the use of the imperial family," and "The imperial family is our source." A man who said he was the organizer of the demonstration explained his aim, the article said.   The participants were mainly women in their 50s and 60s, but there was a wide range of ages and genders. A woman in her twenties from Yokohama, who came to the demonstration with her one-year-old child, said, "My image of the Imperial Family has changed a