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Empress Kōjun
香淳皇后
Formal portrait, c. 1928
Empress consort of Japan
Tenure
25 December 1926 – 7 January 1989
Enthronement
10 November 1928
Empress dowager of Japan
Tenure
7 January 1989 – 16 June 2000
Born
Princess Nagako (良子女王) (1903-03-06)6 March 1903 Tokyo City, Empire of Japan
Died
16 June 2000(2000-06-16) (aged 97) Fukiage Ōmiya Palace, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Burial
25 July 2000
Musashi Imperial Graveyard, Hachiōji, Tokyo, Japan
Spouse
Hirohito, Emperor Shōwa
(m. 1924; died 1989)
Issue
Shigeko Higashikuni
Sachiko, Princess Hisa
Kazuko Takatsukasa
Atsuko Ikeda
Akihito, Emperor of Japan
Masahito, Prince Hitachi
Takako Shimazu
Posthumous name
Empress Kōjun (香淳皇后)
House
Imperial House of Japan
Father
Prince Kuni Kuniyoshi
Mother
Chikako Shimazu
Signature
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. She was empress consort of Japan (皇后, kōgō) from 1926 until her husband's death in 1989, making her the longest-serving empress consort in Japanese history.[2]
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^ ab"Emperor Showa and Empress Kojun – The Imperial Household Agency". Kunaicho.go.jp. Archived from the original on 18 October 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
^Downer, Lesely. Obituary: "Nagako, Dowager Empress of Japan," The Guardian (London). 17 June 2000.
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