It is highly unusual for a Japanese prime minister’s wife to make an overseas trip on her own. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s wife, Yuko Kishida, is planning to visit to Washington in April to meet US First Lady Jill Biden, broadcaster TBS reported on Wednesday, citing Japanese government sources.but she was not able to meet Mrs Biden then because the US First Lady was undergoing medical treatment.
TBS also said that if scheduling permitted, Mrs Kishida might also meet US President Joe Biden on her mid-April visit. It is highly unusual for a Japanese prime minister’s wife to make an overseas trip on her own. Most political wives tend to keep a low profile. One exception was the wife of former prime minister Shinzo Abe, Akie Abe, who frequently accompanied him on trips. Abe was assassinated in Japan last year.She took part in an LGBTQ rights parade, opposed nuclear power, and even visited protesters opposing the development of a US military facility in the Okinawa region - all things that helped soften her husband’s hawkish image.
But her prominence also led to difficulties when she got caught up in a scandal about the murky sale of some land to a nationalist school to which she had ties. REUTERS
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