Empress dowager's funeral procession goes to Hachioji

TOKYO, Japan - A hearse carrying the coffin of Empress Dowager Nagako heads to the Musashino Imperial Mausoleum in Hachioji in the western suburbs of Tokyo on July 25, as crowds line the streets to watch the procession. A funeral ceremony was to take place at a site where a mausoleum for the empress dowager is being built. The empress dowager, widow of late Emperor Hirohito, died of old age June 16 at age 97.

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