and also in tokyo, farrah hasnain, who is researcher and writer at the japan times.me to the program. nancy, why is it in modern times in a place like japan, for a princess to choose a college sweetheart who is not a royal to be her husband, that it creates all this drama in japan? why did she have to go through this ordeal? nancy: it really was not that dramatic at the start. these were two who fell in love early on when they were undergraduates at international christian university. and they were scheduled to have a very royal wedding in 2018, i believe, three years ago. but unfortunately, there was tabloid media that dug up some dirt on the family background of her fiance. and in japan, you have to acknowledge that you are not -- i mean she is a member of the royal family, but also he is somebody who has a background as a commoner that is going to come under scrutiny. and also his mother had some money that she had to pay back, and it just began to unravel so that they had to not only postpone the marriage, but ultimately have a very quiet wedding ceremony behind