Empress Nagako

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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) (1903-03-06)6 March 1903 Tokyo, Japan
Died	16 June 2000(2000-06-16) (aged 97) Fukiage Palace, Tokyo, Japan
Burial	25 July 2000 Musashi Imperial Graveyard, Hachiōji
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 Empress Kōjun (香淳皇后)
House	Imperial House of Japan
Father	Prince Kuni Kuniyoshi
Mother	Chikako Shimazu
Signature

Nagako^[a] (6 March 1903 – 16 June 2000),^[1] posthumously honoured as Empress Kōjun,^[b][1] was a member of the Imperial House of Japan, the wife of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) and the mother of Emperor Emeritus Akihito. She was Empress of Japan from 1926 until her husband's death in 1989, making her the longest-serving empress consort in Japanese history.^[2]

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