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Empress Kōjun

1903 - 2000

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Nagako (良子; 6 March 1903 – 16 June 2000), posthumously honoured as Empress Kōjun (香淳皇后, Kōjun Kōgō), 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 of Japan from 1926 until her husband's death in 1989, making her the longest-serving empress consort in Japanese history. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Empress Kōjun is the 282nd most popular companion (down from 184th in 2019), the 228th most popular biography from Japan (down from 122nd in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Companion.

Empress Kōjun was most famous for her role in the Meiji Restoration. She was the wife of Emperor Meiji and the mother of Emperor Taishō. She was also a strong supporter of women's rights and education.

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Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Empress Kōjun ranks 282 out of 784. Before her are Helen of Greece and Denmark, Dorothea of Brandenburg, Constance of Castile, Princess Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt, Catherine Opalińska, and Alexandra of Yugoslavia. After her are Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Yevdokiya Lopukhina, Domitia Longina, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Hümaşah Sultan, and Maria Barbara Bach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Empress Kōjun ranks 61. Before her are Georg Elser, George Davis Snell, Ernest Walton, Alonzo Church, Yisrael Kristal, and Raymond Radiguet. After her are Uichiro Hatta, Vincente Minnelli, Kim Chaek, Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark, John Vincent Atanasoff, and Vladimir Bartol. Among people deceased in 2000, Empress Kōjun ranks 38. Before her are Gino Bartali, Yasuo Suzuki, Bettino Craxi, Hirokazu Ninomiya, John Gielgud, and Rudolf Kirchschläger. After her are Takashi Kano, Petar Mladenov, Lila Kedrova, Steve Reeves, Tommaso Buscetta, and Akira Nozawa.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Empress Kōjun ranks 228 out of 6,245. Before her are Sanada Yukimura (1567), Yoshio Okada (1926), Hifuyo Uchida (null), Tadao Takayama (1904), Yozo Aoki (1929), and Waichiro Omura (1933). After her are Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (1646), Ishikawa Goemon (1558), Emperor Seimu (83), Emperor Go-Mizunoo (1596), Takashi Kano (1920), and Emperor Kenzō (450).

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Among COMPANIONS In Japan

Among companions born in Japan, Empress Kōjun ranks 1. After her are Empress Teimei (1884), Empress Shōken (1849), Shigeko Higashikuni (1925), and Olivia Lufkin (1979).

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