Kazuko Takatsukasa, 59; Japanese Emperor’s Sister
From Associated Press
TOKYO —
Kazuko Takatsukasa, the elder sister of Emperor Akihito, died of heart failure at a Tokyo hospital early Friday. She was 59.
Takatsukasa was the third daughter of the late Emperor Hirohito, Japan’s longest-reigning monarch, who died Jan. 7. She served as Lord Custodian of the Great Shrine of Ise, a major Shinto shrine in western Japan, for 14 years.
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