Empress Nagako

Posthumous name
	Empress Kōjun (香淳皇后)

Empress Kōjun

香淳皇后
Empress Kōjun; 香淳皇后;
	Formal portrait, c. 1928
Empress consort of Japan
Tenure	25 December 1926 – 7 January 1989
Enthronement	10 November 1928
Empress dowager of Japan
Tenure	7 January 1989 – 16 June 2000
Born	Princess Nagako (良子女王); 6 March 1903; Azabu, Tokyo, Japan
Died	16 June 2000 (aged 97); Fukiage Palace, Tokyo, Japan
Burial	25 July 2000; Musashi Imperial Graveyard
Spouse	Hirohito, Emperor Shōwa (m. 1924; died 1989)
Issue	Shigeko Higashikuni; Sachiko, Princess Hisa; Kazuko Takatsukasa; Atsuko Ikeda; Akihito, Emperor of Japan; Masahito, Prince Hitachi; Takako Shimazu;
Posthumous name
Posthumous name
	Empress Kōjun (香淳皇后)
House	Imperial House of Japan
Father	Kuniyoshi, Prince Kuni
Mother	Chikako Shimazu
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Nagako (良子; 6 March 1903 – 16 June 2000),^[1] posthumously honoured as Empress Kōjun (香淳皇后, Kōjun Kōgō),^[1] was a member of the Imperial House of Japan, the wife of Emperor Hirohito and the mother of Emperor Emeritus Akihito. She served as Empress of Japan from 1926 until her husband's death in 1989, making her the longest-serving empress consort in Japanese history.^[2]

^ ^a ^b "Emperor Showa and Empress Kojun – The Imperial Household Agency". Kunaicho.go.jp. Archived from the original on 18 October 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
^ Downer, Lesely. Obituary: "Nagako, Dowager Empress of Japan," The Guardian (London). 17 June 2000.

[kunaicho1-1] "Emperor Showa and Empress Kojun – The Imperial Household Agency". Kunaicho.go.jp. Archived from the original on 18 October 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2017.

[guardian2000-2] Downer, Lesely. Obituary: "Nagako, Dowager Empress of Japan," The Guardian (London). 17 June 2000.

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