The wedding of princess Mako, the oldest granddaughter of Emperor Akihito, and her school sweetheart will be put off until 2020 because of absence of "adequate arrangements", news reports said Tuesday.
Mako and Kei Komuro, both 26, had been planned to wind up plainly formally occupied with a customary court service one month from now before their wedding on November 4.
Be that as it may, the couple have chosen there was insufficient time to make "adequate arrangements", Mako said in an announcement cited by Jiji Press.
They have effectively educated the head and ruler that their wedding-related functions will be postponed until the point when 2020, since the royal family's timetable will be tight one year from now as Akihito resigns, Jiji said.
"I'm extremely sad for making a major inconvenience and additional weight the individuals who have genuinely helped our wedding," Mako said.
A supreme family office official said the couple still need to get hitched and denied any association between the deferment and a current magazine article about charged cash inconvenience including the life partner's mom, Jiji revealed.
The sovereign stunned the country in 2016 when he flagged his want to take a rearward sitting arrangement after about three decades in the activity, refering to age and medical issues.
He will leave the post on April 30, 2019 - the first run through for over two centuries that a Japanese ruler has ventured down.
Akihito's oldest child, 57-year-old Crown Prince Naruhito, is set to rise the Chrysanthemum Throne a day later.
Mako is the oldest little girl of Prince Akishino, Naruhito's sibling, and Princess Kiko.