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[31] [32] Despite the imperial family's extravagant expenditures, there is a limitation with travel expenses since the Emperor's entourage pays a maximum of £110 a night, regardless of the actual cost of the hotel. Hotels accept it since they regard it as an honour to host the Imperial Family. [29]
On a larger scale, the royal’s death brings Japan’s “rapidly dwindling” Imperial family to just 16 people, CNN reported, “as the country faces the dilemma of how to maintain the royal ...
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 ...
Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu (秩父宮雍仁親王, Chichibu-no-miya Yasuhito Shinnō, 25 June 1902 – 4 January 1953) was the second son of Emperor Taishō (Yoshihito) and Empress Teimei (Sadako), a younger brother of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) and a general in the Imperial Japanese Army.
The Emperor died less than an hour later, at 6:33 am. His death was announced to the public at 7:55 am during a press conference by the Grand Steward of Japan's Imperial Household Agency, Shōichi Fujimori, who also revealed details about his cancer for the first time. The Emperor was survived by his wife, five children, ten grandchildren and ...
The princess is the great-aunt of current Emperor Naruhito.
The following is a family tree of the emperors of Japan, from the legendary Emperor Jimmu to the present monarch, Naruhito. [1]Modern scholars have come to question the existence of at least the first nine emperors; Kōgen's descendant, Emperor Sujin (98 BC – 30 BC?), is the first for whom many agree that he might have actually existed. [2]
The Nashimoto (梨本宮, Nashimoto-no-miya) (princely house) was the oldest collateral branch of the Japanese Imperial Family created from the Fushimi-no-miya, the oldest of the four branches of the imperial dynasty allowed to provide a successor to the Chrysanthemum throne should the main imperial line fail to produce an heir.