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Hirohito as an infant in 1902 Emperor Taishō's four sons in 1921: Hirohito, Takahito, Nobuhito, and Yasuhito. Hirohito was born on 29 April 1901 at Tōgū Palace in Aoyama, Tokyo during the reign of his grandfather, Emperor Meiji, [2] the first son of 21-year-old Crown Prince Yoshihito (the future Emperor Taishō) and 16-year-old Crown Princess Sadako, the future Empress Teimei. [3]
Princess Atsuko was born at the Tokyo Imperial Palace on 7 March 1931, her father is the Emperor Showa (Hirohito), her mother is the Empress Kōjun.Her childhood appellation was Yori-no-miya (順宮).
Hirohito 1901–1989 Shōwa r. 1926–1989 (124) Empress Kōjun (Princess Nagako of Kuni) 1903–2000: Prince Fushimi Hiroyoshi 1897–1938: Yoshihito, Prince Katsura 1948–2014: Princess Yasuko of Mikasa b. 1944: Tadateru Konoe b. 1939: Sachiko, Princess Hisa 1927–1928: Takako, Princess Suga b. 1939: Hisanaga Shimazu b. 1934: Shigeko ...
Hirohito maintained an official boycott of Yasukuni Shrine after it was revealed to him that Class-A war criminals had secretly been enshrined. The boycott was continued by his son and grandson, Akihito and Naruhito. [57] By 1979, Emperor Shōwa was the only monarch in the world with the monarchical title "emperor."
Princess Yuriko of Japan, who was the oldest member of the Japanese Imperial Family, has died at 101 years old. Princess Yuriko — the wife of Emperor Hirohito’s brother — died at a Tokyo ...
Empress Nagako, Emperor Hirohito, the U.S. President Gerald Ford, and the U.S. First Lady Betty Ford at the Red Room in 1975. Nagako was the first Japanese empress consort to travel overseas. [12] She accompanied Hirohito on his European tour in 1971 and later on his state visit to the United States in 1975. [12]
Hirohito ascended to the throne on 25 December 1926, upon the death of his father Emperor Taishō, beginning the Shōwa era. He would rule Japan as the 126th emperor to claim direct descent from Amaterasu , the Japanese goddess of the sun .
His eldest son, Crown Prince Hirohito, served as Sesshō (摂政; "Regent") from 1921 to 1926 because of Taishō's illness. [143] [144] 124: Hirohito 裕仁: Emperor Shōwa 昭和天皇: 25 December 1926 – 7 January 1989 (62 years, 13 days)