But explicit constitutional guarantees of equality between the sexes and within marriage do not apply to Japan’s imperial household, which is governed by a unique body of law. Japan’s postwar constitution guarantees the equality of the sexes and equal rights of husband and wife. military occupation after World War II that shut the door to Mako and other imperial women’s claims to lifelong royalty. In fact, it was legal reforms initiated under U.S. Mako’s fate was sealed long before her birth, but not by timeless Japanese custom. Or to be more precise, the law governing Mako’s marriage killed the feminine royal. Mako Komuro is the opposite of a royal wedding, in that the marriage killed the royal in her. And Japan’s imperial family, rather than gaining a son, has lost a daughter. She has taken her husband’s family name and his status. Mako’s spartan civil ceremony, naked of pomp and circumstance, marks a reverse-storybook transformation from Princess Mako into the commoner Mrs. Worldwide media coverage of onetime Japanese Princess Mako’s so-called “royal wedding” has it backward.

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