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Princess Aiko ahead of official visit to Laos

Japanese Princess Aiko, only daughter of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, waves upon entering Akasaka Estate in Tokyo on Nov. 14, 2025, to meet with former Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko ahead of her official visit to Laos from Nov. 17. (Pool photo)

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Princess Aiko ahead of official visit to Laos

Japanese Princess Aiko, only daughter of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, waves upon entering Akasaka Estate in Tokyo on Nov. 14, 2025, to meet with former Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko ahead of her official visit to Laos from Nov. 17. (Pool photo)

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Japan's former Empress Michiko turns 91

Japanese Princess Aiko, only daughter of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, visits Akasaka Estate in Tokyo to meet with former Empress Michiko on Oct. 20, 2025, to celebrate her 91st birthday. (Pool photo)

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Japan's former Empress Michiko turns 91

Japan's Emperor Naruhito visits Akasaka Estate in Tokyo with Empress Masako (not pictured) to meet with former Empress Michiko on Oct. 20, 2025, to celebrate her 91st birthday. (Pool photo)

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Japan's former Empress Michiko turns 91

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako visit Akasaka Estate in Tokyo to meet with former Empress Michiko on Oct. 20, 2025, to celebrate her 91st birthday. (Pool photo)

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Japan's former Empress Michiko turns 91

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako visit Akasaka Estate in Tokyo to meet with former Empress Michiko on Oct. 20, 2025, to celebrate her 91st birthday. (Pool photo)

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Japan's former Empress Michiko turns 91

Japanese Princess Aiko, only daughter of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, visits Akasaka Estate in Tokyo to meet with former Empress Michiko on Oct. 20, 2025, to celebrate her 91st birthday. (Pool photo)

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Japan's former Empress Michiko turns 91

Japanese Princess Aiko, only daughter of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, visits Akasaka Estate in Tokyo to meet with former Empress Michiko on Oct. 20, 2025, to celebrate her 91st birthday. (Pool photo)

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Coming-of-age rites for Japan Prince Hisahito

Former Japanese Emperor Akihito and former Empress Michiko arrive at a Tokyo hotel on Sept. 6, 2025, for a private banquet for Prince Hisahito, following his coming-of-age rites at the Imperial Palace. (Pool photo)

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Coming-of-age rites for Japan Prince Hisahito

Former Japanese Emperor Akihito and former Empress Michiko arrive at a Tokyo hotel on Sept. 6, 2025, for a private banquet for Prince Hisahito, following his coming-of-age rites at the Imperial Palace. (Pool photo)

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Coming-of-age rites for Japan Prince Hisahito

Former Japanese Emperor Akihito and former Empress Michiko arrive at a Tokyo hotel on Sept. 6, 2025, for a private banquet for Prince Hisahito, following his coming-of-age rites at the Imperial Palace. (Pool photo)

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Former Japan emperor, empress in Karuizawa

Former Japanese Emperor Akihito and former Empress Michiko stroll in a vegetable field during a retreat in the Nagano Prefecture resort town of Karuizawa, central Japan, on Aug. 23, 2025.

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Former Japan emperor, empress in Karuizawa

Former Japanese Emperor Akihito and former Empress Michiko stroll in a vegetable field during a retreat in the Nagano Prefecture resort town of Karuizawa, central Japan, on Aug. 23, 2025.

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Former Japan emperor, empress in Karuizawa

Former Japanese Emperor Akihito and former Empress Michiko stroll in a vegetable field during a retreat in the Nagano Prefecture resort town of Karuizawa, central Japan, on Aug. 23, 2025.

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Former Japan emperor, empress in Karuizawa

Former Japanese Emperor Akihito and former Empress Michiko stroll in a vegetable field during a retreat in the Nagano Prefecture resort town of Karuizawa, central Japan, on Aug. 23, 2025.

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Ex-Japan emperor, empress in Karuizawa for retreat

Former Japanese Emperor Akihito and former Empress Michiko arrive at JR Karuizawa Station in the summer resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Aug. 21, 2025, for a nine-day retreat. (Pool photo)

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Ex-Japan emperor, empress in Karuizawa for retreat

Former Japanese Emperor Akihito and former Empress Michiko arrive at JR Karuizawa Station in the summer resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Aug. 21, 2025, for a nine-day retreat. (Pool photo)

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Ex-Japan emperor, empress in Karuizawa for retreat

Former Japanese Emperor Akihito (C, L) and former Empress Michiko (C, R) arrive at JR Karuizawa Station in the summer resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Aug. 21, 2025, for a nine-day retreat. (Pool photo)

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Ex-Japan emperor, empress in Karuizawa for retreat

Former Japanese Emperor Akihito and former Empress Michiko arrive at JR Karuizawa Station in the summer resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Aug. 21, 2025, for a nine-day retreat. (Pool photo)

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Ex-Japan emperor, empress in Karuizawa for retreat

Former Japanese Emperor Akihito and former Empress Michiko arrive at JR Karuizawa Station in the summer resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Aug. 21, 2025, for a nine-day retreat. (Pool photo)

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Japan imperial couple visits ex-emperor's residence

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako arrive at the Akasaka Estate in Tokyo on Aug. 12, 2025, to brief former Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko about their official visit to Mongolia. (Pool photo)

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Japan's ex-emperor discharged from hospital

Japan's former Emperor Akihito (L), alongside former Empress Michiko, leaves the University of Tokyo Hospital in the capital on July 18, 2025, after undergoing treatment with a new drug for right heart failure and asymptomatic myocardial ischemia.

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Japan's ex-emperor discharged from hospital

Japan's former Emperor Akihito (L), alongside former Empress Michiko, leaves the University of Tokyo Hospital in the capital on July 18, 2025, after undergoing treatment with a new drug for right heart failure and asymptomatic myocardial ischemia.

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Japan's ex-emperor discharged from hospital

Japan's former Emperor Akihito (L), alongside former Empress Michiko, leaves the University of Tokyo Hospital in the capital on July 18, 2025, after undergoing treatment with a new drug for right heart failure and asymptomatic myocardial ischemia.

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Former emperor discharged from hospital

Japan's former Emperor Akihito (back, L), alongside former Empress Michiko, leaves the University of Tokyo Hospital in Tokyo on May 10, 2025, after undergoing medical tests for a heart condition.

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Japanese emperor's 65th birthday

Japanese Emperor Naruhito enters the residence of former Emperor Akihito and former Empress Michiko in the Akasaka Estate in Tokyo on Feb. 23, 2025, as the emperor marks his 65th birthday. (Pool photo)

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New Year greeting event at Japan's Imperial Palace

Former Japanese Emperor Akihito waves to well-wishers from a balcony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo during a New Year greeting event on Jan. 2, 2025. Standing next to him is former Empress Michiko.

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New Year's Day for imperial family

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito visits the Akasaka Estate in Tokyo on Jan. 1, 2025, to meet with former Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko for New Year greetings. (Pool photo)

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New Year's Day for imperial family

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the Akasaka Estate in Tokyo on Jan. 1, 2025, to meet with former Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko for New Year greetings. (Pool photo)

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New Year's Day for imperial family

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the Akasaka Estate in Tokyo on Jan. 1, 2025, to meet with former Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko for New Year greetings. (Pool photo)

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New Year's Day for imperial family

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the Akasaka Estate in Tokyo on Jan. 1, 2025, to meet with former Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko for New Year greetings. (Pool photo)

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Hidankyo members at press conference in Tokyo

Terumi Tanaka (C), a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading atomic bomb survivors group and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, attends a press conference with Jiro Hamasumi (L) and Michiko Kodama, both deputy secretaries general of Nihon Hidankyo, at the National Press Club of Japan in Tokyo on Dec. 24, 2024.

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Japan's Empress Masako's 61st birthday

Japan's Empress Masako (R) visits the residence of former Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko in Tokyo with Emperor Naruhito on her 61st birthday on Dec. 9, 2024, for customary birthday greetings.

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Princess Aiko turns 23

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the Akasaka Estate in Tokyo to pay her respects to former Emperor Akihito and former Empress Michiko, her grandparents, on Dec. 1, 2024, as she turns 23.

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Princess Aiko turns 23

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the Akasaka Estate in Tokyo to pay her respects to former Emperor Akihito and former Empress Michiko, her grandparents, on Dec. 1, 2024, as she turns 23.

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Condolence visit for late Princess Yuriko

Japanese former Emperor Akihito (2nd from R) and former Empress Michiko are pictured after making a condolence visit to the residence of the late Princess Yuriko at Akasaka Estate in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2024, ahead of her funeral the following day. Princess Yuriko died at age 101 on Nov. 15. (Pool photo)

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Condolence visit for late Princess Yuriko

Japanese former Emperor Akihito and former Empress Michiko are pictured after making a condolence visit to the residence of the late Princess Yuriko at Akasaka Estate in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2024, ahead of her funeral the following day. Princess Yuriko died at age 101 on Nov. 15. (Pool photo)

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Vigil for late Princess Yuriko

Former Japanese Emperor Akihito (2nd from L) and former Empress Michiko are pictured after visiting the residence of late Princess Yuriko at Akasaka Estate in Tokyo on Nov. 24, 2024, to express their condolences ahead of a wake planned later in the day. The great-aunt of Emperor Naruhito died at age 101 on Nov. 15. (Pool photo)

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Condolences over Princess Yuriko

Former Japanese Emperor Akihito (front, L) and former Empress Michiko (front, R) are pictured after visiting Akasaka Estate in Tokyo on Nov. 16, 2024, to express their condolences over the death the previous day of Princess Yuriko at the age of 101. The great-aunt of Emperor Naruhito was the oldest member of the Japanese imperial family.

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Condolences over Princess Yuriko

Former Japanese Emperor Akihito and former Empress Michiko are pictured after visiting Akasaka Estate in Tokyo on Nov. 16, 2024, to express their condolences over the death the previous day of Princess Yuriko at the age of 101. The great-aunt of Emperor Naruhito was the oldest member of the Japanese imperial family.

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Japanese emperor and empress

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako travel to the Akasaka Estate in Tokyo by car to celebrate former Empress Michiko's 90th birthday on Oct. 20, 2024. (Pool photo)

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Japanese Princess Aiko

Japan's Princess Aiko heads to the Akasaka Estate in Tokyo by car to celebrate former Empress Michiko's 90th birthday on Oct. 20, 2024. (Pool photo)

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Crown prince in Fukui

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito (2nd from L) and Crown Princess Kiko (2nd from R) prepare to fertilize a tree in Fukui, central Japan, on Oct. 19, 2024, that was planted in 2009 by then Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko.

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Crown prince in Fukui

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito (R) fertilizes a tree (top) in Fukui, central Japan, on Oct. 19, 2024, that was planted by then Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko in 2009.

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Former Japan emperor, empress in Karuizawa

Former Japanese Emperor Akihito and former Empress Michiko stroll in a vegetable field in the Nagano Prefecture resort town of Karuizawa, central Japan, on Aug. 23, 2024. (Pool photo)

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Former Japan emperor, empress in Karuizawa

Former Japanese Emperor Akihito and former Empress Michiko stroll in a vegetable field in the Nagano Prefecture resort town of Karuizawa, central Japan, on Aug. 23, 2024. (Pool photo)

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Ex-Japan emperor, empress in Karuizawa for retreat

Former Japanese Emperor Akihito and former Empress Michiko arrive at JR Karuizawa Station in the Nagano Prefecture resort town of Karuizawa, central Japan, on Aug. 22, 2024, for an eight-day retreat (Pool photo).

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Ex-Japan emperor, empress in Karuizawa for retreat

Former Japanese Emperor Akihito and former Empress Michiko arrive at JR Karuizawa Station in the Nagano Prefecture resort town of Karuizawa, central Japan, on Aug. 22, 2024, for an eight-day retreat (Pool photo).

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Ex-Japan emperor, empress in Karuizawa for retreat

Former Japanese Emperor Akihito and former Empress Michiko arrive at JR Karuizawa Station in the Nagano Prefecture resort town of Karuizawa, central Japan, on Aug. 22, 2024, for an eight-day retreat (Pool photo).

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Concert to celebrate former emperor, empress turning 90

(From L) Japan's former Empress Michiko, former Emperor Akihito, Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako attend a concert to celebrate the former Japanese emperor and empress turning 90 at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on July 10, 2024. The former emperor turned 90 on Dec. 23 last year, while the former empress will turn 90 on Oct. 20. (Pool photo)