Michiko (美智子, born Michiko Shōda [正田 美智子 Shōda Michiko] on 20 October 1934) is a member of the Imperial House of Japan. She was Empress of Japan as the...

katakana) Michiko Shoda (正田 美智子), later Empress Michiko of Japan Michiko Fujiwara (藤原 道子, 1900–1983), Japanese nurse and politician Michiko Fukushima...

rift between the two women caused Michiko to suffer a nervous breakdown in 1963. Nagako was the first Japanese empress consort to travel overseas. She accompanied...

to marry into the imperial family, after her mother-in-law, Empress Emerita Michiko (Michiko Shōda) and her sister-in-law, Crown Princess Kiko (Kiko Kawashima)...

the country's largest flour milling company. He was the father of Empress Michiko and the maternal grandfather of Emperor Naruhito. He was the third...

official visits jointly made by the Emperor and Empress from 1991 to 2017. Although Empress Michiko has made two official visits on her own, in 2002...

brother of Emperor Naruhito, and the younger son of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko. Since his marriage in June 1990, he has had the title Prince Akishino...

Ashoka, third Mauryan emperor Empress Tishyaraksha, last principal chief consort of Ashoka, third Mauryan emperor Empress Michiko, consort of Emperor Akihito...

youngest child and only daughter of Emperor Emeritus Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko, and the younger sister of the current Emperor of Japan, Naruhito...

the Imperial Household Agency announced that Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko would be cremated after they die. Until the end of World War II, the...

Emperor Naruhito and the second son of Emperor Emeritus Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko. Kiko earned a PhD in humanities from Ochanomizu University. Her...

jūnihitoe was also worn by Empress Michiko during the enthronement ceremony of Emperor Akihito in 1990. Though the Empress, the imperial princesses, and...

designer Jun Ashida who at one point of his career was the dressmaker of Empress Michiko. Born in 1964 in Tokyo, Tae is the second daughter of Jun Ashida. After...

styles of kimono and the customers include the royal family members Empress Michiko, Princess Akishino, etc. The company created the Chiso Gallery containing...

daughters of Prince Tomohito. On 6 December 2013, Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko returned from their visit to India. The Imperial Family gathered at...

Household Agency confirmed press reports that Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko do not plan to be buried like their immediate predecessors, but to...

is currently headed by chairman Osamu Shoda, the younger brother of Empress Michiko, and president Hiroshi Oeda. Subsidiary of Nisshin Seifun Group include:...

the Empress of Japan. According to his book Dancing Naked in the Mind Field, Kary Mullis, 1993 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, addressed Empress Michiko as...

Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo. He also created and designed hats for Japanese Empress Michiko since 1966. Anna Ben-Yusuf wrote The Art of Millinery (1909), one of...

Catholic, she is not the first Christian to enter the imperial family (Empress Michiko also comes from a Catholic family and was raised in Christian religious...

Hyōgo Prefecture Eriko Yamatani, politician Makiko Fujino, politician Empress Michiko Sadako Ogata, scholar, former United Nations High Commissioner for...

American President Barack Obama meets Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and First Lady Akie Abe during the welcome...

1967) and later promoted to Grand Cross with Diamonds (13 March 1992) Empress Michiko, Grand Cross (13 March 1992) Queen Sofía of Spain, Grand Cross (17...

official state visit to Japan being hosted by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan. As a child on an official state visit to the Vatican in 2003...

during the Rolling Thunder Revue tour 1994, Emperor Akihito of Japan, Empress Michiko and Crown Prince Naruhito, on a state visit to the U.S. 1994, Dumb...

class) 7th Class (Abolished in 2003) 8th Class (Abolished in 2003) Empress Michiko Empress Masako Kiko, Crown Princess Akishino Aiko, Princess Toshi Mako...

Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan (8 April 2015)...

Pradesh Name change Japanese royalty by marriage Michiko Empress Michiko Shōda 1934 - Japanese empress consort Birth Japanese royalty Naruhito Emperor...

Diary in 2007; the film was famously viewed by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko. Donations from both Japan and South Korea were sent in significant...

1998 – Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visit Portugal for the Lisbon Expo '98 (the first visit by an Emperor and Empress to Portugal). Former Portugal...