MICHIKO. In this file photo, then Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko leave the stage after a ceremony to mark the 30th anniversary of the monarch's coronation to the throne at the National Theatre in Tokyo on February 24, 2019. File photo by Nicolas Datiche/Pool/AFP
A spokesman for the IHA told Agence France-Presse the 84-year-old had been diagnosed with breast cancer at a hospital on Friday and will soon have an operation. The first commoner ever to marry an imperial heir, Michiko was born in 1934 in Tokyo and attended the exclusive all-girls Christian Sacred Heart School before studying English literature at its university.The then-crown prince's decision to eschew a traditional arranged marriage and wed for love was seen as a powerful affirmation of democratic Japan.
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