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Her Majesty the Empress of Japan
皇后
Imperial
Imperial Standard of the Empress
Incumbent
Masako since 1 May 2019
Details
Style
Her Majesty[1]
Residence
Tokyo Imperial Palace (official residence)
Website
The Imperial Household Agency
The Empress of Japan is the title given to the wife of the Emperor of Japan or a female ruler in her own right. The current empress consort is Empress Masako, who ascended the throne with her husband on 1 May 2019.
^"Activities of Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress". The Imperial Household Agency. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
The EmpressofJapan is the title given to the wife of the Emperor ofJapan or a female ruler in her own right. The current empress consort is Empress Masako...
October 1934) is a member of the Imperial House ofJapan. She was EmpressofJapan as the wife of Akihito, the 125th Emperor ofJapan reigning from 7 January...
Masako Owada (小和田雅子, Owada Masako); 9 December 1963) is EmpressofJapan (皇后, kōgō) as the wife of Emperor Naruhito, who ascended to the Chrysanthemum Throne...
Empress Genmei (元明天皇, Genmei-tennō, April 20, 660 – December 29, 721), also known as Empress Genmyō, was the 43rd monarch ofJapan, according to the traditional...
Empress Suiko (推古天皇, Suiko-tennō) (554 – 15 April 628) was the 33rd monarch ofJapan, according to the traditional order of succession. Suiko reigned...
recognized as Japanese emperors posthumously. Emperor ofJapanEmpressofJapan List ofempresses consort ofJapan Sesshō and Kampaku Shogun List of shoguns...
posthumously honoured as Empress Kōjun, was a member of the Imperial House ofJapan, the wife of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) and the mother of Emperor Emeritus Akihito...
posthumously honoured as Empress Teimei (貞明皇后, Teimei-kōgō), was the wife of Emperor Taishō and the mother of Emperor Shōwa ofJapan. Her posthumous name...
the empress did not give birth to an heir.) Of the eight reigning empressesofJapan, none married or gave birth after ascending the throne. Some of them...
RMS EmpressofJapan may refer to the following ships: RMS EmpressofJapan (1890), operated by Canadian Pacific Steamships 1891–1922. RMS Empressof Japan (1929)...
foreign affairs and former permanent representative ofJapan to the United Nations. She became empress consort upon her husband's succession to the throne...
EmpressofJapan as the consort of Emperor Senka. Daughter of Emperor Ninken and Princess Kasuga no Ōiratsume. Gave birth to five children. Empress Dowager...
Hashihito (? – 665) was EmpressofJapan as the consort of Emperor Kōtoku. She was Emperor Jomei and Empress Kōgyoku's daughter. 吉永登「間人皇女」、『万葉 文学と歴史の間...
Herbert P. Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, HarperCollins, 2001, p. 661 "Japan's Dowager Empress Dead at 97". CBS News. 16 June 2000. Archived...
Empress Dowager Cixi [tsʰɹ̩̌.ɕì] (29 November 1835 – 15 November 1908), was a Manchu noblewoman of the Yehe Nara clan who effectively controlled the Chinese...
She later became the empress consort of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in northeastern China from 1934 until the abolition of the monarchy in August...
October 1975). "At Arlington Cemetery, a Wreath From 'the Emperor and EmpressofJapan'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 28 November 2022....
princess ofJapan, while his paternal grandfather, Emperor Shōwa, reigned as emperor. Reuters reported that Naruhito's paternal grandmother, Empress Kōjun...