Yoshiko Ishiba

Yoshiko Ishiba
石破佳子
Ishiba in 2025
Spouse of the Prime Minister of Japan
In role
1 October 2024 – 21 October 2025
MonarchNaruhito
Prime MinisterShigeru Ishiba
Preceded byYuko Kishida
Succeeded byTaku Yamamoto
Personal details
BornYoshiko Nakamura
(中村佳子)

(1956-08-26) 26 August 1956
Tokyo, Japan
Spouse
(m. 1983)
Children2
Alma materKeio University

Yoshiko Ishiba[a] (née Nakamura; born 26 August 1956) is the wife of Shigeru Ishiba, the former prime minister of Japan.[1] She previously worked for Marubeni.[2]

Biography

Ishiba was born in Tokyo, as the second daughter of Akira Nakamura, an employee at Showa Denko.

She attended Joshigakuin Junior and Senior High School, an integrated private junior and senior high school.[3] After graduating from high school, she attended Keio University to study jurisprudence. After graduation, she began working at Marubeni. She married Shigeru Ishiba in 1983 and has two daughters with him.

On 1 October 2024, her husband became the 102nd Prime Minister of Japan after winning the 2024 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election.[1]

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ Japanese: 石破 佳子 Ishiba Yoshiko

References

  1. ^ a b "「一目見て、こんなにきれいな女性がいるのかと」ファーストレディー・石破佳子さん 慶應義塾大学の同級生で総理が一目惚れ「選挙区では私より人気がある」". Broadcasting System of San-in (in Japanese). 2024-10-02. Archived from the original on 2024-10-07. Retrieved 2024-10-06.
  2. ^ "Japan's new first lady is already more popular than her spouse". Asahi. 3 October 2024.
  3. ^ "石破佳子", Wikipedia (in Japanese), 2024-10-04, archived from the original on 2024-10-01, retrieved 2024-10-06