Empress

Japan’s Empress Masako is elegant as she marks 100th anniversary of Tokyo’s Meiji shrine 

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Japan’s Empress Masako is elegant in a face mask and white ensemble as she takes part in a ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of Tokyo’s Meiji Shrine Japan’s Empress Masako, 56, visited the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo on Wednesday  The wife of Emperor Naruhito was sombre in an all-white ensemble The Meiji Shrine was … Read more

Princesses Mako and Kako mark anniversary of the death of Empress Kojun – wife of Emperor Hirohito

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Members of the Japanese royal family have marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Empress Kojun with a ceremony at the family mausoleum and imperial palace.  The Empress, who was the wife of Emperor Hirohito and grandmother of current emperor Naruhito, died on June 16, 2000. Sisters Princess Mako, 29, and Princess Kako, 26, … Read more