Princess Yuriko of Japan died on Friday morning at the age of 101 in a hospital in the capital, Tokyo. This was confirmed by the Japanese Imperial Court, reports TASR according to the DPA agency. Juriko, who was born in 1923, was the oldest living member of the Japanese imperial family. She died in a Tokyo hospital, where she was admitted in March of this year due to a mild stroke.
She married Prince Mikasa, the youngest brother of the Japanese Emperor Hirohito, after completing her studies in Tokyo at the age of 18. The couple was married for 75 years and had five children together. Three of them are no longer alive, writes DPA. Juriko’s husband – Mikasa – died in 2016 at the age of 100 due to cardiac arrest. Princess Juriko spent the last years of her life in seclusion at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo.
