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Nagako [a] (6 March 1903 – 16 June 2000), [1] posthumously honoured as Empress Kōjun, [b] [1] was a member of the Imperial House of Japan, the wife of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) and the mother of Emperor Emeritus Akihito.
Apr 29, 2013 · In 1995, Nagako became Japan’s longest-living empress dowager when she turned 92, surpassing Empress Kanshi, who died in 1127. At the time of her death at the age of 97 in 2000 she had been an empress for 75 years.
Jun 17, 2000 · Empress Dowager Nagako, who reigned with the late Emperor Hirohito during Japan’s World War II aggressions and its rise from the ashes into an economic power, died Friday at the Imperial Palace....
Jun 17, 2000 · Dowager Empress Nagako of Japan, the widow of Emperor Hirohito, died yesterday after a life that saw the transformation of her homeland several times over. She was 97.
Apr 26, 2019 · Empress Kōjun is the posthumous name of the wife of Emperor Shōwa of Japan, also known as Hirohito. Born Princess Nagako Kuni on March 6, 1903, at her family’s home in Tokyo, Japan, she was the eldest daughter of Chikako Shimazu, daughter of Prince Tadayoshi Shimazu who was the last feudal lord of Satsuma, and Prince Kuniyoshi Kuni, a ...
Nagako, posthumously honoured as Empress Kōjun, was a member of the Imperial House of Japan, the wife of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) and the mother of Emperor Emeritus Akihito. She was Empress of Japan from 1926 until her husband's death in 1989, making her the longest-serving empress consort in Japanese history.
Jun 17, 2000 · Empress Dowager Nagako, who reigned with the late Emperor Hirohito during Japan's World War II aggressions and its rise from the ashes into an economic power, died yesterday at...