Empress dowager's coffin placed in hearse

Empress dowager's coffin placed in hearse

TOKYO, Japan - The coffin of Empress Dowager Nagako is placed in a hearse at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on July 25 for a funeral at the Toshimagaoka imperial cemetery in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward. The empress dowager, wife of the late Emperor Hirohito, died of old age June 16 at 97. Her posthumous name is Empress Kojun.

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