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Empress Nagako. Nagako [a] (6 March 1903 – 16 June 2000), [1] posthumously honoured as Empress Kōjun, [1] [b] was a member of the Imperial House of Japan, the wife of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) and the mother of Emperor Emeritus Akihito.
Jun 17, 2000 · Lesley Downer. Fri 16 Jun 2000 21.53 EDT. The Dowager Empress Nagako, who has died aged 97, lived through the greatest trauma that ever happened to Japan and to the Japanese imperial line. When...
Jun 17, 2000 · TOKYO — 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...
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. ''She passed away because...
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 ...
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Jun 16, 2000 · The widow of Emperor Hirohito, the last emperor of Japan, passed away on Friday after suffering breathing problems for two days. She was a royal figure who had a long and controversial marriage with the emperor and a life of seclusion and art. She was also a devoted mother and grandmother of the current emperor and his children.
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 consort of Japan from 1926 until her husband's death in 1989, making her the longest-serving empress consort in Japanese history.
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