Empress Nagako
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Formal portrait, c. 1928 | |||||
| Empress consort of Japan | |||||
| Tenure | 25 December 1926 – 7 January 1989 | ||||
| Enthronement | 10 November 1928 | ||||
| Empress dowager of Japan | |||||
| Tenure | 7 January 1989 – 16 June 2000 | ||||
| Born | Princess Nagako (良子女王) 6 March 1903 Tokyo, Japan | ||||
| Died | 16 June 2000 (aged 97) Fukiage Palace, Tokyo, Japan | ||||
| Burial | 25 July 2000 | ||||
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| House | Imperial House of Japan | ||||
| Father | Prince Kuni Kuniyoshi | ||||
| Mother | Chikako Shimazu | ||||
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Nagako (良子; 6 March 1903 – 16 June 2000), posthumously honoured as Empress Kōjun (香淳皇后, Kōjun Kōgō), was a member of the Imperial House of Japan, the wife of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) and the mother of Emperor Emeritus Akihito. She was Empress of Japan from 1926 until her husband's death in 1989, making her the longest-serving empress consort in Japanese history.