Princess Yuriko, the oldest member of the Japanese imperial family and great-aunt of Emperor Naruhito, died of natural causes at a Tokyo hospital early
File photo taken in May 2023 shows Princess Yuriko at her home in Tokyo ahead of her 100th birthday the following month. Friday morning, the Imperial Household Agency said. She was 101.
Japan’s Princess Yuriko visits a Persian cultural exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum with her husband Prince Mikasa and her granddaughter Princess Akiko on July 31, 2006. Emperor Naruhito’s great-aunt, the oldest member of Japan’s imperial family, died at a Tokyo hospital on Nov. 15, 2024, at the age of 101.
A member of Japan’s former nobility, she married Prince Mikasa, the youngest brother of Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa, in 1941 at age 18, after graduating from the Gakushuin Women’s Academy. Her husband died of heart failure in 2016 at age 100. The couple had three sons and two daughters. Their sons — Princes Tomohito, Katsura and Takamado — died in 2012, 2014 and 2002, respectively.
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