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    Nagako (6 March 1903 – 16 June 2000), posthumously honoured as Empress Kōjun, was a member of the Imperial House of Japan, the wife of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito)...
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    Empress Kōjun. Her protective sword was made by Teiichi Tsukiyama. On December 17 of that same year, she had her first outing when Empress Kōjun visited...
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    (grandson of Emperor Meiji) and eldest daughter of Emperor Shōwa and Empress Kōjun. She was the eldest sister to Emperor Emeritus Akihito, and paternal aunt...
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    Emperor Shōwa, as well as those of their wives, Empress Teimei and Empress Kōjun. Emperor Taishō was the first Emperor of Japan to be buried in Tokyo. He...
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    December 1933, the eldest son and fifth child of the Emperor Shōwa and Empress Kōjun. He married Michiko Shōda on 10 April 1959. When his father died on 7 January...
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    Atsuko Naishinnō), is the fourth daughter of Emperor Shōwa and Empress Kōjun. As such, she is the older sister of Emperor Emeritus Akihito and paternal...
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    He is the second son and sixth born child of Emperor Shōwa and Empress Kōjun and is third and last in line to the Chrysanthemum Throne. He is mainly...
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    Kazuko Naishinnō), was the third daughter of Emperor Shōwa and Empress Kōjun. She was an elder sister to Emperor Emeritus Akihito, and paternal aunt...
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    northern section was originally the residence of Emperor Showa and Empress Kōjun and was called the Fukiage Palace. After the Emperor's death in 1989, the...
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    Japan. She is the fifth and youngest daughter of Emperor Shōwa and Empress Kōjun, the youngest sister of the Emperor Emeritus of Japan, Akihito, and the...
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    speculated that Prince Akihito's mother, Empress Kōjun had opposed the engagement. After the death of Empress Kōjun on 16 June 2000, Reuters reported that she...
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    daughter of Marquis Naohiro Nabeshima. She was a first cousin of Empress Kōjun of Japan. On maternal side, she was also a first cousin of Princess Setsuko...
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    of Shigeko Higashikuni, eldest daughter of Emperor Hirohito and Empress Kōjun. Prince Morihiro was born on 6 May 1916, the first child of Prince Naruhiko...
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    half-brother of Prince Kuni Kuniyoshi, the father of the future Empress Kōjun, the wife of Emperor Shōwa. His other half-brothers, Prince Asaka Yasuhiko...
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    It was also widely rumored that Empress Kōjun had opposed the engagement. After the death of Empress Kōjun in 2000, Reuters announced that the former...
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    Empress Kōjun wearing a jūnihitoe for her enthronement in 1928...
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    Kuninori Kaya, and Prince Kuniyoshi Kuni, the father of the future Empress Kōjun, the consort of Emperor Shōwa. On 10 March 1906, Emperor Meiji granted Prince...
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    also speculated that Empress Kōjun had opposed the engagement. After the death of Fumihito's paternal grandmother Empress Kōjun in 2000, Reuters reported...
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    the Apostle the First-called, September 1916 Emperor Shōwa and Empress Kōjun had seven children (two sons and five daughters). (1967) A review of the...
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    future Emperor Shōwa) marries Princess Nagako of Kuni (the future Empress Kōjun) (January 26). Katō Takaaki becomes prime minister (June 11). 1925: General...
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    Empress Kōjun attending the festival with her daughters, c. 1940...
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    Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa) to Princess Nagako of Kuni (posthumously Empress Kōjun) in January 1924, the principal consorts of emperors and crown princes had...
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    emperor. Reuters reported that Naruhito's paternal grandmother, Empress Kōjun, had driven her daughter-in-law and grandchildren to depression in the 1960s...
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    Army during the Meiji and Taishō periods. He was the father of Empress Kōjun (who in turn was the consort of the Emperor Hirohito), and therefore, the...
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  • as Masa Akira Nakao as Mokichi Tōru Shinagawa as Mac Ben Hiura as Ichizō Kōjun Itō as Hide Ken Yoshizawa as Taka Akira Onodera as Yasu Masanobu Katsumura...
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  • Minister of Transport, who gets blackmailed by the Tozawa organization Kojun Notsu as Ide, a police captain and Katagiri's supervisor Akiko Iwase as...
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  • (1774–1856), Austrian orientalist and historian MPC · 6044 6049 Toda 1991 VP Kojun Toda (1879–1951) Japanese astronomer MPC · 6049 6050 Miwablock 1992 AE Miwa...
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    Fushimi Hiroyasu, a second cousin to both Emperor Hirohito and Empress Kōjun and nephew of Prince Kan'in Kotohito. On 26 December 1911, his granddaughter...
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    Utakai Hajime poetry competition, chaired by Emperor Shōwa and Empress Kōjun (1950)....
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    initially commemorated during the Shōwa period as the birthday of Empress Kōjun (mother of Emperor Akihito) on 6 March. This was established in 1931 when...
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