Princess Mikasa, the oldest member of Japan's royal family and great aunt to the emperor, died aged 101 on Friday in a Tokyo hospital, the Imperial Household Agency said. She had been hospitalised ...

and her death marks the first in the family in eight years since that of Prince Mikasa in 2016. With her death, the imperial family is now made up of 16 people." The Japanese Imperial Family will ...

It did not announce the cause of death. Born in 1923 as an aristocrat, Yuriko married at age 18 to Prince Mikasa, the younger brother of Hirohito and the great-uncle of current Emperor Naruhito ...

Mikasa and Yuriko were parents to five children ... On a larger scale, the royal’s death brings Japan’s “rapidly dwindling” Imperial family to just 16 people, CNN reported, “as the ...

It did not announce the cause of death, but Japanese media said she died of pneumonia. Born in 1923 as an aristocrat, Yuriko married at age 18 to Prince Mikasa, the younger brother of Hirohito and ...