Yuko Kishida
First Lady of Japan from 2021 to 2024
Yuko Kishida (岸田 裕子, Kishida Yūko; née Wada; born 15 August 1964) is the wife of the former Prime Minister of Japan, Fumio Kishida.
Biography
Kishida was born in Miyoshi City, Hiroshima Prefecture, as the eldest daughter of Kunijirō Wada, a real estate company owner.
She attended Hiroshima Jogakuin Junior and Senior High School, an integrated junior and senior high school. After graduating from high school, she attended Tokyo Women's Christian University to study Japanese literature. She joined Mazda to work as secretary of vice president Yoshihiro Wada in 1987 after graduating from TWCU. She married Fumio Kishida in 1988 and has three sons with him.
On 4 October 2021, she became the First Lady of Japan because her husband became the 100th Prime Minister of Japan after winning the 2021 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) leadership election.
Solo visit to the United States
On 17 April 2023, Yuko Kishida traveled solo to the United States at the invitation of the First Lady, Jill Biden, making her the first spouse of a Japanese Prime Minister to have made a solo visit to the United States.
During her visit, Kishida and Jill Biden planted a cherry blossom tree within the White House grounds as a symbol of the enduring friendship between the United States and Japan. Before the planting ceremony, Jill Biden gave Kishida a tour of the White House, including the Oval Office, where she had the opportunity to briefly converse with U.S. President Joe Biden.
Kishida also visited Howard University, a distinguished historically Black university in Washington, D.C. There, she engaged with students who were studying Japanese.
“Yuko Kishida” enters the record as first Lady of Japan from 2021 to 2024. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Yuko, Kishida and First can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Yuko Kishida” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Yuko, Kishida and First provides the most credible route into that argument.
The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q108806841. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1964, 1987, 1988 and 2021.
Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.
- Subject orientation
- Search vocabulary
- Locating named sources
The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Yuko Kishida”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Yuko Kishida primary sources, Yuko Kishida archive and Yuko research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Yuko Kishida”?
- Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
- Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Yuko Kishida” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.