Japanese princess died: she lived to be over 100 years old
Tokyo - Princess Yuriko of Japan has died at the age of 101.
According to the Imperial Court Office, the oldest living member of the imperial family died on Friday morning local time at St. Luke Hospital in Tokyo.
She had already been admitted there in March due to a mild cerebral infarction.
Yuriko was born in 1923 and after studying at the Gakushuin Women's Academy in Tokyo, she married Prince Mikasa, Emperor Hirohito's youngest brother, at the age of 18.
The princess's husband died in 2016
The two were married for 75 years and had five children together, three of whom are already dead. Yuriko's husband Mikasa died of cardiac arrest in 2016 at the age of 100.
Yuriko lived her last years in seclusion at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo.