Born in Tokyo in 1966, Michiko is a graduate of University of Tokyo Law Faculty. She earned a Master's in Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health. She was the scholarship recipient of College Women's Association of Japan Scholarship.
Michiko experienced an abruption of uterus in her pregnancy in 2004, with her daughter in Newborn ICU for two and half months. She had watched Dr. Catherine Hamlin's interview with Oprah Winfrey during the same year but only after her daugther's discharge did she consider getting in touch with the hospital.
She was so moved by the whole chain of events during this year that she ended up accepting the Hospital's request to set up the Japan Foundation for the Hamlin Group.
She lives with her daughter and the rest of her family in Tokyo. She is the owner of a real estate investment consulting business.
