Kiyoko Fukuda

Kiyoko Fukuda sits at the center of a remarkable political family — the wife of Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, the mother of a sitting Diet member, and the granddaughter of politician Yukio Sakurauchi. Born in Tokyo in 1944, right in the thick of wartime Japan, she grew up in an era when the world was being rebuilt from scratch. She went to Keio University, and I want you to sit with that for a second: a woman attending one of Japan's most prestigious universities in the early 1960s wasn't a casual decision — that took determination and a family who believed in her. As a prime minister's spouse she met figures like Laura Bush, and she practices Urasenke tea ceremony. There's a quiet kind of dignity in that, and I find it genuinely interesting.

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Kiyoko Fukuda (née Mine; born 1944, in Tokyo) is the wife of Yasuo Fukuda, former Prime Minister of Japan, and the mother of LDP politician Tatsuo Fukuda. She attended Tokyo Gakugei University Senior High School and majored in psychology at Keio University; she is a granddaughter of politician Yukio Sakurauchi.

Name (English)

Kiyoko Fukuda

Name (Japanese)

福田貴代子

Reading

ふくだ きよこ

Born

January 13, 1944 (age 82)

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

Homemaker

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Monkey

High school

Tokyo Gakugei University Senior High School

University

Keio University

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A6%8F%E7%94%B0%E8%B2%B4%E4%BB%A3%E5%AD%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73281

Tags

• From Tokyo
• Homemaker

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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