Kikuko, Princess (d. 2004)
Kikuko, Princess (d. 2004)
Japanese princess. Born in Japan; died Dec 18, 2004, age 92, in Tokyo, Japan; granddau. of Yoshinobu Tokugawa (Japan's last shogun); m. Takamatsu (younger brother and advisor to Emperor Hirohito); no children.
Progressive princess, championed cancer research 1930s on and published late husband's diaries (1995), which contained criticism of Japan's wartime military.
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