Mako Komuro, erstwhile Japanese princess and niece to Emperor Naruhito, has delivered her firstborn; however, the Imperial Household Agency, invoking Mako’s forfeiture of royal prerogative upon marrying commoner Kei Komuro in 2021 pursuant to Japan’s Imperial House Law, has remained reticent regarding the neonate's precise birthdate and sex, despite the couple's current residency in New York where Komuro practices law, and notwithstanding the palace's circumspect confirmation of the event following its preemption by media dissemination; while Mako's consanguineal relatives have expressed their unbridled elation and extended felicitations, the genesis of the Komuros' union, originating at Tokyo’s International Christian University, was infamously protracted by a quadrennial deferral occasioned by a pecuniary imbroglio implicating Komuro's maternal figure, compounded by Mako's declination of the statutory bridal endowment attendant upon her secession from the Chrysanthemum Throne.