The duo met in June 2012 when they were studying at Tokyo's International Christian University (ICU). Their dreamy romance between a royal and a "commoner" is a modern-day fairy tale that has since captured imagination and headlines all over the world. Princess Mako grew up within the rarefied compounds of the grand neo-baroque Akasaka Palace, which hosts visiting state dignitaries to Japan. Komuro is now a paralegal who also majors in business law as a graduate student at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University. Princess Mako, meanwhile, works as an affiliate researcher at a museum at the University of Tokyo as she reads a PhD course in museology at the ICU.

Source: The Nation Bangkok May 21, 2017 07:18 UTC