Toshimichi Takatsukasa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese noble
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Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
About Toshimichi Takatsukasa
- Toshimichi Takatsukasa (?? ??, Takatsukasa Toshimichi, 26 August 1923 – 27 January 1966), son of Duke Nobusuke, was a Japanese researcher of trains.
- He was a descendant of Tokugawa Yoshinao and consequently was born into an aristocratic family, but, like all Japanese aristocrats, lost his title with the post-war legal reforms of 1947.
- He worked at TEI Park, a railroad museum in Tokyo.
- He married the third daughter of Emperor Hirohito, Princess Kazuko; they adopted a son from Ogyu-Matsudaira, Naotake. On 28 January 1966, Toshimichi Takatsukasa was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning at the apartment of his mistress, Michiko Maeda, a Ginza nightclub hostess, who also died of the same cause.
- While the official cause of death was attributed to a faulty heater, there was widespread speculation in the Japanese press that it was really a double suicide, caused by his inability to divorce and marry the woman he loved.
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