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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]
His father was born and reared in Kyoto; and although he later lived and died in Tokyo, Emperor Meiji's mausoleum is located on the outskirts of Kyoto, near the tombs of his imperial forebears; but Emperor Taishō's grave is in Tokyo, in the Musashi Imperial Graveyard in Hachiōji. [22] His wife and his son, the Emperor Shōwa, are buried near him.
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."
The prime minister of Japan is the country's head of government and the leader of the Cabinet.This is a list of prime ministers of Japan, from when the first Japanese prime minister (in the modern sense), Itō Hirobumi, took office in 1885, until the present day.
Tokyo — Japanese Princess Yuriko, the wife of wartime Emperor Hirohito's brother and the oldest member of the imperial family, has died after her health deteriorated recently, palace officials ...
23 November 1275 (Kenji 1, 5th day of the 11th month): Hirohito-shinnō was named Crown Prince and heir to his first cousin, the Daikakuji-tō Emperor Go-Uda. This was the result of political maneuvering by Hirohito's father, the Jimyōin-tō Emperor Go-Fukakusa. [5]
Prince Hisahito of Akishino (born 6 September 2006), the first male born to the Imperial Household since his father 41 years before. Masahito, Prince Hitachi was born on 28 November 1935, the second son and sixth child of the Emperor Shōwa and Empress Kojun. His childhood title was Prince Yoshi.