Princess Yuriko of Japan, the Imperial Family’s eldest member, died at 101 years old on Nov. 15 at a Tokyo hospital. Her health had taken a sharp decline after a stroke and pneumonia in March of this year.
Rachel Burchfield serves as digital editor, royals at PEOPLE. She has worked at PEOPLE since August 2024, and her work has previously appeared in Marie Claire, Vanity Fair, and Vogue.Princess Yuriko Mikasa of Japan attends the ceremony of the 42nd National Convention for Aiiku Group Member in Minato Ward, Tokyo on April 20, 2010.Princess Yuriko of Japan, who was the oldest member of the Japanese Imperial Family, has died at 101 years old.
Yuriko was hospitalized after her stroke and had been in and out of intensive care since then. Her overall condition deteriorated over the past week, the Imperial Household Agency said. On a larger scale, the royal’s death brings Japan’s “rapidly dwindling” Imperial family to just 16 people, CNN reported, “as the country faces the dilemma of how to maintain the royal family while conservatives in the governing party insist on retaining male-only succession.”
Japan’s 1947 Imperial House Law allows only males to take the Japanese throne, and forces female royal family members who marry commoners to lose their royal status, as has happened recently with , as she too was largely away from public duty throughout most of this year after announcing her own cancer diagnosis in March.Kate Middleton Has Only Worn Four Different Tiaras in Her 13 Years as a Working Royal: Learn More About Each SparklerKate Middleton's Festival of Remembrance Look Featured Deeper Meaning: Inside Her Style
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