Passing the bar’s been a royal ache for this new lawyer.
The commoner husband of a former Japanese princess who lives in New York Metropolis has lastly handed the state take a look at to turn into a lawyer — on his third strive.
Kei Komuro, 31 — who married Princess Mako final yr — needed to retake the state bar examination this previous July after he failed on two prior makes an attempt.
“I’m actually joyful. Thanks very a lot,” he reportedly mentioned after getting congratulations from lawyer Okuno Yoshihiko, his outdated boss at a Japanese legislation agency, who confirmed the information to NHK.
Yoshihiko mentioned he acquired a name from Komuro on Friday about passing the bar.
“This time, he handed,” the Tokyo lawyer mentioned.
Within the name, Komuro reportedly additionally promised to “examine more durable as a lawyer.”
The New York State Board of Regulation Examiners mentioned about 9,609 individuals sat for the bar examination this July — and 66 p.c of them handed.
The success charge for repeat takers like Komuro is 23 p.c.
Komuro graduated from Fordham College’s legislation college in Might 2021 and has since been working as a legislation clerk at a authorized agency in New York.
He and Mako, the eldest daughter of Crown Prince Akishino, have been residing in New York ever since getting married final October. As a result of he was a commoner, she was pressured to drop her royal title and not be a part of public actions of the imperial household.
A senior official of the Imperial Family Company expressed reduction over Komuro lastly passing the examination.
“It’s good to listen to. It's reassuring to see the foundations for [the couple’s] future lastly falling into place,” the supply mentioned to the Japanese newspaper the Mainichi.
The couple has been financially unbiased after Mako turned down a $1.23 million fee that she was entitled to upon leaving the royal household.
Mako has since began a new gig on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, the place she helps curators as a volunteer within the Met’s Asian artwork assortment impressed by the lifetime of a Thirteenth-century monk who launched Buddhism to the island nation.
Earlier than shifting to the US, Mako graduated with a level in artwork and cultural heritage from Worldwide Christian College in Tokyo.
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