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Japan's Princess Sayako to wed in November
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-05-19 11:48

Princess Sayako, the only daughter of Japan's emperor and empress, will get married in November, palace officials said Wednesday.

Yoshiki Kuroda (L), 39, and Japan's Princess Sayako, 35, look at each other during a press conference regarding their engagement at the Imperial Household Agency in Tokyo December 30, 2004. Princess Sayako, the only daughter of Japan's emperor and empress, has become engaged to Kuroda, a commoner and will marry late next year, the nation's top courtier said on Thursday. [Reuters]
Yoshiki Kuroda (L), 39, and Japan's Princess Sayako, 35, look at each other during a press conference regarding their engagement at the Imperial Household Agency in Tokyo December 30, 2004. Princess Sayako, the only daughter of Japan's emperor and empress, has become engaged to Kuroda, a commoner and will marry late next year, the nation's top courtier said on Thursday. [Reuters]

Sayako, 36, was engaged in March to 40-year-old city hall employee Yoshiki Kuroda.

Their wedding will take place at Tokyo's Imperial Hotel on Nov. 15, according to the Imperial Household Agency, which would not release other details.

The couple will wed in a Shinto ceremony in the presence of the emperor and the empress, said Japan's public broadcaster NHK and Kyodo News agency.

Japanese had long been speculating about when Sayako, the last of the imperial couple's three children to remain single, would marry.

The couple announced their engagement in December following a discreet two-year courtship. Sayako and Kuroda knew each other as children and were reunited at a palace tennis party organized by Sayako's brother, Prince Akishino.

The law dictates that Sayako, as a woman born in the imperial family, will become a commoner after she marries, moving out of the palace and losing her royal title.

Shinto is Japan's native religion.



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