Yoshiko Ishiba

Yoshiko Ishiba is the wife of Shigeru Ishiba, the former prime minister of Japan. She previously worked for Marubeni.

Biography

Ishiba was born in Tokyo, as the second daughter of, an employee at Showa Denko.
She attended, an integrated private junior and senior high school. 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.