Updated on: November 15, 2024 / 8:27 AM EST
/ CBS/AP
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 said. Yuriko died Friday at the age of 101 in a Tokyo hospital, the Imperial Household Agency said. It did not announce the cause of death.
Born in 1923 as an aristocrat, Yuriko married at age 18 to Prince […]
Japan's oldest royal, Princess Yuriko, wartime Emperor Hirohito's sister-in-law, dies at 101