She was the oldest living member of the Japanese imperial family. Now Princess Yuriko has died in a hospital in Tokyo.
Princess Yuriko of Japan has died at the age of 101. As the Imperial Court Office announced, the oldest living member of the imperial family died on Friday morning local time in St. Luke Hospital in Tokyo. She was admitted there in March because of a mild cerebral infarction.
Yuriko was born in 1923. After studying at the Gakushuin Women’s Academy in Tokyo, she married Prince Mikasa, the youngest brother of Emperor Hirohito, at the age of 18. The two were married for 75 years and had five children together, three of whom are already dead. Yuriko’s husband Mikasa died of cardiac arrest in 2016 at the age of 100. Yuriko lived her last years in seclusion in the Akasaka Palace in Tokyo.
Source: Stern
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