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Princess Yuriko, the oldest member of the Japanese imperial family, has died at the age of 101.

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[Síguenos ahora también en WhatsApp. Da clic aquí] Princess Yurikooldest member Japanese imperial family and great-aunt of Emperor Naruhito, passed away this Friday at the age of 101 in

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Princess Yurikooldest member Japanese imperial family and great-aunt of Emperor Naruhito, passed away this Friday at the age of 101 in the hospital in TokyoThis was announced by a representative of the Japanese Imperial Household Agency.

This news comes a few days after the said agency announced that its functions heart And kidneys They grew worse after months of hospitalization in a hospital in the capital Tokyo.

Yuriko went entered at St. Luke’s International Hospital, in the center of the Japanese capital, in March this year cerebral infarction And pneumoniaand has not appeared in public since New Year’s Day, when he attended a ceremony at the Tokyo Imperial Palace and visited the residence of the Emperor Emeritus.

Yuriko widow deceased Prince Mikasa whom she married in 1941 and who was one of the three brothers of Emperor Hirohito, the grandfather of the current Emperor Naruhito, and who died in 2016 at the age of 100.

women members of the Japanese imperial family currently occupy important role in the performance of official duties and public appearances of the institutionwhere they form the majority, despite the lack of inheritance rights.

Belonging 16 participants current members of the Japanese Imperial Family, 11 womenthe wives of princes or their unmarried daughters, since by marrying commoners, women of the imperial family must renounce family genealogy and their functions.

This caused an acute problem of succession in the country with Salic law in which at present only three members have inheritance rights: Crown Prince Akishino, 58; his son, Prince Hisahito (18), and the latter’s great-uncle, Prince Hitachi, 88, brother of Emperor Emeritus Akihito (90).

EFE

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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