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15/11/2024
Princess Yuriko died on November 15, 2024 at the age of 101. Emperor Hirohito’s sister-in-law, who is the grandfather of the current ruler, was the eldest person in the imperial family. She had been hospitalized at St Luke’s International Hospital in Tokyo since March 3 due to aspiration pneumonia and a mild stroke.
Yuriko de Mikasa
- Date of birth : June 4, 1923
- Personal emblem: paulownia imperialis
- Honorary title: honorary vice-president of the Japanese Red Cross
- Schooling: graduated from the Gakushûin school
- Marriage : October 22, 1941
Source: data from the Imperial Household Agency
Yuriko is the second daughter of Viscount Takagi Masanori. In 1941, at the age of 18, she married Takahito of Mikasa, nicknamed “the bearded prince”, who was the youngest brother of Emperor Hirohito. They will have three sons and two daughters.
Princess Yuriko and Prince Takahito on the balcony of Tokyo’s Imperial Palace greet the crowd to mark the New Year, January 2, 2002. (Jiji Press)
Yuriko was the president of the Imperial Boshiaiiku-kai Foundation, which works for the welfare of mothers and children, and also honorary president of the Association for the Promotion of Traditional Japanese Clothing. After the war, she assisted her archaeologist and orientalist husband in his field research and document collection for many years.
(Title photo: Princess Yuriko attends the national convention of the Imperial Boshiaiiku-kai Foundation on April 20, 2010 at the Meiji Kinen-kan in Akasaka. Jiji Press)
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