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Japanese Princess Yuriko

(From L) Japan's Emperor Hirohito, his wife Empress Nagako, the emperor's brother Prince Mikasa and his wife Princess Yuriko (R, in a dress) are pictured in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on July 27, 1955. Princess Yuriko, the oldest member of Japan's imperial family, died at a Tokyo hospital on Nov. 15, 2024, at the age of 101.

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Emperor, empress release pheasants from Nasu summer villa

NASU, Japan - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko set free a locally bred pheasant at the grounds of the imperial villa in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture on Sept. 13. The imperial couple has taken up the hobby of releasing birds from the Nasu imperial grounds since the emperor's father, the late Emperor Hirohito, started the annual practice in 1967. (Pool photo)

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Prince Mikasa, uncle of Emperor Akihito, dies at 100

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 27 Kyodo - Prince Mikasa, uncle of Emperor Akihito, is seen giving a lecture on ancient Oriental art history at Tokyo University of the Arts in this file photo taken in December 1985. The prince, the youngest brother of Emperor Hirohito, died at a Tokyo hospital on Oct. 27, 2016, at 100.

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Imperial family in 1987

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 8 Kyodo - File photo taken Nov. 22, 1987 shows then-Crown Prince Akihito (C) strolling in the garden of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo with his father and then-Emperor Hirohito (L) and son Naruhito.

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Emperor Hirohito's marine specimens return from Belgium

TOKYO, Japan - The specimens of hydrozoa, a small marine organism, collected by the late Japanese Emperor Hirohito are shown at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo on Nov. 10, 2014, after being kept in Belgium for about 80 years.

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Former Nagasaki mayor dies at 92

NAGASAKI, Japan - Photo taken July 6, 2014, shows former Nagasaki Mayor Hitoshi Motoshima, who was shot by a member of a right-wing group in 1990 after saying Emperor Hirohito bore responsibility for World War II, attending a memorial ceremony to commemorate Chinese victims of the atomic bomb at Nagasaki Peace Park in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan. He died of pneumonia at age 92 on Oct. 31, 2014.

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Emperor Hirohito's visit to Hiroshima in Kyodo News photo series

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Hirohito responds to citizens in Hiroshima City on Dec. 7, 1947, on one of his visits to a number of places nationwide after the end of World War II. The photo is included in "The Chronicle," a 14-volume series of news photos tracing Japan's 70-year postwar history to be published by Kyodo News.

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Official record of Emperor Hirohito's life

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Aug. 19, 2014, shows part of the official record of the 87-year life of Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa. On Sept. 9, the Imperial Household Agency released the 61-volume record after spending 24 years compiling it. (Pool photo)

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Official record of Emperor Hirohito's life

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows the building containing the Archives and Mausolea Department of the Imperial Household Agency at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. On Sept. 9, 2014, the agency released the official record of the 87-year life of Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa. The department spent 24 years compiling the 61-volume record.

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Official record of Emperor Hirohito's life

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken Sept. 15, 1923, shows Crown Prince Hirohito (L front) during his visit to Tokyo's Ueno Park to inspect fire damage following the magnitude 7.9 Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated the Japanese capital and its vicinity on Sept. 1 that year. On Sept. 9, 2014, the Imperial Household Agency released the official record it compiled of the 87-year life of Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa.

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Official record of Emperor Hirohito's life

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken Nov. 22, 1987, shows Emperor Hirohito standing in a garden of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. On Sept. 9, 2014, the Imperial Household Agency released the official record of the 87-year life of the emperor, posthumously known as Emperor Showa, after spending 24 years compiling the 61-volume record.

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Emperor Showa's annals completed in 24 years

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Hirohito reviews troops at a military parade in Tokyo on April 29, 1944. The Imperial Household Agency is due to publish the 12,000-page annals of the emperor, posthumously known as Emperor Showa (1901-1989), in mid-September after some 24 years of work.

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Emperor Showa's annals completed in 24 years

TOKYO, Japan Kyodo - Japanese Emperor Hirohito (R) meets Gen. Douglas MacArthur at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on Sep. 27, 1945. The Imperial Household Agency is due to publish the 12,000-page annals of the emperor, posthumously known as Emperor Showa (1901-1989), in mid-September after some 24 years of work.

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Prince Mikasa hospitalized

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in October 2008 shows Prince Mikasa, uncle of Emperor Akihito. The 97-year-old youngest brother of the late Emperor Hirohito has been hospitalized after partially losing consciousness at his home Nov. 12, 2013, the Imperial Household Agency said Nov. 13.

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Heart-shaped camphor tree

OKAYAMA, Japan - Photo taken March 7, 2013, shows a camphor tree, which appears heart shaped from a certain angle, in Bizen, Okayama Prefecture. The tree was planted in 1926 by then Crown Prince Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa.

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Diplomatic documents declassified

TOKYO, Japan - A 1945 file photo shows part of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Japanese diplomatic documents declassified on March 7, 2013, show reporters from the victorious allies tried to interview then Emperor Hirohito at the palace while soldiers visited an imperial villa and demanded a guide to it.

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Diplomatic documents declassified

TOKYO, Japan - A file photo shows former Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda. Japanese diplomatic documents declassified on March 7, 2013, show that Fukuda, then foreign minister, expressed discontent over an attempt by the United States to use the historic 1971 meeting between Emperor Hirohito and U.S. President Richard Nixon in Alaska for political purposes.

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Prince Mikasa leaves hospital

TOKYO, Japan - Prince Mikasa (in wheelchair) is released from St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo on Aug. 31, 2012, after his heart surgery in July. In front (R) is his wife Princess Yuriko. The 96-year-old prince is the youngest brother of Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa. (Pool photo)

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Prince Mikasa leaves hospital

TOKYO, Japan - Prince Mikasa (in wheelchair) is released from St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo on Aug. 31, 2012, after his heart surgery in July. In front (R) is his wife Princess Yuriko. The 96-year-old prince is the youngest brother of Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa. (Pool photo)

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Prince Mikasa undergoes heart surgery

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Prince Mikasa, uncle of Emperor Akihito. The 96-year-old youngest brother of the late Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa, underwent surgery at St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo on July 11, 2012, to repair a defective heart valve, the Imperial Household Agency said.

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Prince Mikasa's heart function deteriorates

TOKYO, Japan - Reporters gather on the night of July 7, 2012, in front of St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo, where Prince Mikasa, uncle of Emperor Akihito, has been hospitalized. The 96-year-old prince, the youngest brother of Emperor Hirohito, experienced a deterioration of heart function the same day at the hospital and was moved to the intensive care unit, the Imperial Household Agency said early on July 8.

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Prince Mikasa's heart function deteriorates

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in October 2008 shows Prince Mikasa, uncle of Emperor Akihito. The 96-year-old prince, the youngest brother of Emperor Hirohito, experienced a deterioration of heart function on July 7, 2012, at a hospital in Tokyo and was moved to the intensive care unit, the Imperial Household Agency said early on July 8.

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Kobayashi shares lead at Japan Golf Tour C'ship

TOKYO, Japan - Masanori Kobayashi is seen in action at the Japan Golf Tour Championship in Ibaraki Prefecture on June 2, 2011. Kobayashi shared the first-round lead with Hirohito Koizumi after 69s.

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American researcher receives Japan's Int'l Prize for Biology

TOKYO, Japan - American researcher Nancy Moran (L front), professor at Yale University, receives the 2010 International Prize for Biology in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2010. Japanese Emperor Akihito (back L) and Empress Michiko (back R) attend the award ceremony for the prize which was instituted in 1985 to commemorate Emperor Hirohito, father of Emperor Akihito, and his devotion to biological research as well as to offer tribute to the present emperor.

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Emperor Showa visits scorched area in Tokyo's Fukagawa area

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa, visits the scorched land in Tokyo's Fukagawa area after air raids on the capital on March 10, 1945. The photo was taken on March 18, 1945.

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Crown Prince Naruhito visits Emperor Showa Memorial Museum

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito (R) visits the Emperor Showa Memorial Museum in Tokyo on Feb. 26. The prince looked at photos, paintings and other articles left by Emperor Hirohito, who was posthumously named Emperor Showa. (Pool photo)

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Crown Prince Naruhito visits Emperor Showa Memorial Museum

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito (L in front) visits the Emperor Showa Memorial Museum in Tokyo on Feb. 26. The prince looked at photos, paintings and other articles left by Emperor Hirohito, who was posthumously named Emperor Showa. (Pool photo)

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20th anniversary of death of Emperor Hirohito marked

HACHIOJI, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L) walks to the venue of a ceremony to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death of Emperor Hirohito at the Musashino Mausoleum in Hachioji, Tokyo, on Jan. 7. About 80 people, including Empress Michiko, Prince Akishino (R) and his wife Princess Kiko, as well as Prime Minister Taro Aso, attended the ceremony.

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20th anniversary of death of Emperor Hirohito marked

TOKYO, Japan - Crown Princess Masako enters the Imperial Palace in Tokyo to attend a ceremony to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death of Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa, on Jan. 7. She joined the ceremony with Crown Prince Naruhito on behalf of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko both of whom attended another ceremony at the Musashino Mausoleum in Hachioji, also in Tokyo. (Pool Photo by Kyodo News)

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Former Indonesian strongman Suharto dies at 86

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian President Suharto (R) is greeted by Japanese Emperor Hirohito (posthumously known as Emperor Showa) on arrival at Tokyo's Haneda airport in a photo taken in March 1968. Suharto who shaped and ruled the country for 32 years through ruthless but quiet authoritarianism, died on Jan. 27 at age 86.

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Professor of Chinese philosophy Seiichi Uno dies at 97

TOKYO, Japan - Seiichi Uno (file photo), a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo and a leading scholar in Chinese philosophy, died Jan. 7 of old age at his home in Tokyo, his family said Jan. 8. He was 97. Uno, a Tokyo native, was a member of the National Language Council and one of the scholars delegated by the government to name the current imperial era (Heisei) following the end of the Showa era after the death in January 1989 of Emperor Hirohito, who is posthumously known as Emperor Showa.

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100th anniversary of Scouting Movement marked in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (R) offers a toast to King Gustav of Sweden (3rd L), the honorary president of the World Scout Foundation, at a banquet held in Tokyo on Oct. 5 to mark the centenary of the Scouting Movement. Members of the Japanese imperial family have been active in Japan's scouting events ever since Emperor Akihito's father, the late Emperor Hirohito, met with Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scouting Movement, in England while he was crown prince. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Hirohito discontent with Yasukuni's honoring Class-A war criminals

TOKYO, Japan - A photo taken on April 26 shows a set of diaries kept by Ryogo Urabe, a chamberlain of the Imperial Household Agency. The diaries, donated to the major daily Asahi Shimbun, indicated that Japanese Emperor Hirohito was discontent with Yasukuni Shrine's enshrining of Class-A World War II criminals and concerned about disputes with other Asian countries over history.

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Hirohito discontent with Yasukuni's honoring Class-A war criminals

TOKYO, Japan - A file photo taken in February 1982 shows Emperor Hirohito and Ryogo Urabe (2nd from L), a chamberlain of the Imperial Household Agency, leaving the Diet building after an opening session of parliament. Emperor Hirohito was discontent with Yasukuni Shrine's enshrining of Class-A World War II criminals and concerned about disputes with other Asian countries over history, according to the diaries kept by Urabe.

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Hirohito discontent with Yasukuni's honoring Class-A war criminals

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Hirohito (in a file photo taken in 1988) was discontent with Yasukuni Shrine's enshrining of Class-A World War II criminals and concerned about disputes with other Asian countries over history, according to the diaries kept by Ryogo Urabe, a chamberlain of the Imperial Household Agency.

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Hirohito discontent with Yasukuni's honoring Class-A war criminals

TOKYO, Japan - A file photo taken in 2000 shows Ryogo Urabe, who served Emperor Hirohito as a chamberlain of the Imperial Household Agency, from December 1969 to February 2002. The diaries kept by Urabe indicated that Emperor Hirohito was discontent with Yasukuni Shrine's enshrining of Class-A World War II criminals and concerned about disputes with other Asian countries over history.

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Ex-U.S. President Ford dies

TOKYO, Japan - The late former U.S. President Gerald Ford (L, file photo), accompanied by the late Japanese Emperor Hirohito, receives the salute from a Japanese guard of honor during his visit to Japan in November 1974. The AP reported Dec. 27 that Ford has died at age 93.

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Russian movie on Emperor Hirohito released in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - People stand in line to see ''The Sun,'' a Russian film about Emperor Hirohito, at the Cinepathos theater in Tokyo's Ginza district on Aug. 5.

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Ex-emperor's reported remark has no bearing on shrine visit: Koizumi

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks with reporters at his office on July 20 on the late Japanese Emperor Hirohito's reported decision against visiting Yasukuni Shrine. Asked if the report would have any impact on his practice of visiting the shrine, the premier said, ''No, it will not.''

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Ex-emperor's reported remark has no bearing on shrine visit: Koizumi

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks with reporters at his office on July 20 on the late Japanese Emperor Hirohito's reported decision against visiting Yasukuni Shrine. Asked if the report would have any impact on his practice of visiting the shrine, the premier said, ''No, it will not.''

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Emperor Hirohito vexed at Yasukuni's honoring war criminals

TOKYO, Japan - A memorandum written by former Imperial Household Agency Grand Steward Tomohiko Tomita in 1988 reveals that Emperor Hirohito expressed strong displeasure over Yasukuni Shrine's decision in the late 1970s to include Class-A war criminals from World War II in the list of people honored there.

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Emperor Hirohito vexed at Yasukuni's honoring war criminals

TOKYO, Japan - A memorandum written by former Imperial Household Agency Grand Steward Tomohiko Tomita in 1988 reveals that Emperor Hirohito expressed strong displeasure over Yasukuni Shrine's decision in the late 1970s to include Class-A war criminals from World War II in the list of people honored there.

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Japan Diet enacts law to name holiday after Emperor Hirohito's reign

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda bows in appreciation on May 13 after the House of Councillors voted to enact a bill to name a national holiday after the reign of the late Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa.

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(3)Prince Takamado dies of heart failure

TOKYO, Japan - Prince Takamado (L) and his wife, Princess Hisako, outside the Imperial Palace in December l984 after meeting Emperor Hirohito, posthumously called Emperor Showa, following their wedding. The prince died of heart failure Nov. 21 at a Tokyo hospital after collapsing while playing squash at the Canadian Embassy.

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Bush greeted by Emperor

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. President George W. Bush and his wife Laura are greeted by Emperor Hirohito and Empress Michiko on arrival at the Imperial Palace on Feb. 19.

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Princess Takamatsu expresses support for reigning empress

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Takamatsu (in file photo) has penned an article for publication in a biweekly magazine in which she expresses support for the possibility Japan may one day have a reigning empress. Princess Takamatsu, 90, is the widow of Emperor Hirohito's younger brother Prince Takamatsu.

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Enperor, Empress visit Mie Prefecture

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Hirohito and Empress Michiko arrive at JR Tokyo Station on Nov. 27, 2001 for departure on a four-day visit to Mie Prefecture, where they are to worship at Ise Shrine.

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Sex slave tribunal finds late Emperor guilty

TOKYO, Japan - Gabrielle Mcdonald (R), presiding judge at a mock tribunal on Japanese military sexual slavery speaks at a news conference at the end of the ''trial'' in Tokyo on Dec. 12. The tribunal found the late Emperor Hirohito guilty for the institutionalized sexual slavery system before and during World War II and urged Japan to compensate victims.

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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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Funeral held for empress dowager

TOKYO, Japan - A hearse carrying the coffin of Empress Dowager Nagako arrives at the Toshimagaoka imperial cemetery in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on July 25 for a Shinto-style funeral ceremony. The empress dowager, widow of Emperor Hirohito, died of old age June 16 at 97.