Empress Nagako

Posthumous name
	Empress Kōjun (香淳皇后)

Empress Kōjun

香淳皇后
Empress Kōjun; 香淳皇后;
	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 City, Empire of Japan
Died	16 June 2000 (aged 97); Fukiage Ōmiya Palace, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Burial	25 July 2000; Musashi Imperial Graveyard, Hachiōji, Tokyo, Japan
Spouse	Hirohito, Emperor Shōwa (m. 1924; died 1989)
Issue	Shigeko Higashikuni; Sachiko, Princess Hisa; Kazuko Takatsukasa; Atsuko Ikeda; Akihito, Emperor of Japan; Masahito, Prince Hitachi; Takako Shimazu;
Posthumous name
Posthumous name
	Empress Kōjun (香淳皇后)
House	Imperial House of Japan
Father	Prince Kuni Kuniyoshi
Mother	Chikako Shimazu
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Nagako (6 March 1903 – 16 June 2000), posthumously honoured as Empress Kōjun, 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 consort of Japan (皇后, kōgō) from 1926 until her husband's death in 1989, making her the longest-serving empress consort in Japanese history.

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