Editing Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni (section)

==Death and legacy==
Higashikuni died of [[heart failure]] in Tokyo on 20 January 1990 at the age of {{age in years and days|1887|12|3|1990|1|20}}, having outlived his wife, two of his sons, his siblings, and his nephew, Emperor Shōwa. Higashikuni is today mainly remembered as the first postwar prime minister of Japan. He is the shortest-serving prime minister, resigning after eight weeks (54 days) and one of the longest-lived prime ministers of all time, along with [[Antoine Pinay]], [[Willem Drees]] and [[Christopher Hornsrud]]. At his death, he was the last surviving full general of the Imperial Japanese Army. From 14 May 1988, when former [[Netherlands]] [[List of Prime Ministers of the Netherlands|Prime Minister]] [[Willem Drees]] died, until his own death, Higashikuni was the world's oldest living former head of government.