Japanese Princess Mako Marks Last Rite as Imperial Family Member

Japanese Princess Mako visited the Imperial Palace on Sunday to attend an annual ritual ceremony, marking her last as an imperial family member.

The rite, the princess attended with other imperial family members at the palace is called Kannamesai, which offers the year's new rice harvest.

Princess Mako, 29, whose fiance Kei Komur, entered the palace by car with her younger sister, Princess Kako. The two beautiful princesses opened the window to wave with a smile at people who had gathered along the road in the rain.

Komuro, 30, who left for New York in August 2018 to study at Fordham University's law school, is expected to see Princess Mako in person for the first time in more than three years on Monday, when they will meet her parents at the Akasaka Estate in Tokyo before the planned marriage on Oct. 26.

Reports confirmed that the couple is scheduled to marry later this month as the marriage had been put on hold for a long time due to an unresolved financial dispute involving Komuro's mother.

After the couple registers the marriage, the princess, a niece of Emperor Naruhito, will move out of the estate the same day. They are set to start a new life in the United States.