Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s wife Yuko Kishida will be making a solo visit to the United States to meet first lady Jill Biden at the White House, a government spokesperson told Japanese news agency Kyodo News.

Yuko Kishida will visit the US for three days from Sunday and will meet Jill Biden over lunch.

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Yuko Kishida was born in Miyoshi City, Hiroshima Prefecture, on August 15, 1964. She is the eldest daughter of a real estate company owner.

After completing high school at Hiroshima Jogakuin Junior and Senior High School, Yuko Kishida joined the Tokyo Women’s Christian University and earned a BA degree.

She tied the knot with Fumio Kishida in 1988. The couple has three sons.

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In October 2021, Fumio Kishida won the 2021 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) leadership election and became the PM of the country.

In an interview with Bungeishunju magazine in March 2022, Yuko reportedly said that she raised her children on her own.

“It was really hard sometimes, like what to do with the two other children when one developed a fever in the middle of the night,” she said in the interview.

“But I told my husband that he should fully focus on his work in Tokyo,” she added.

The children have remained away from the public eye.

In January 2023, the prime minister visited Washington for the first time since assuming office. He met US President Joe Biden.

US first lady was unable to attend any functions at the time as she had just undergone surgery. Yuko too chose to not accompany her husband.