Japan's new first lady a hometown favorite, more popular than husband

Yoshiko Ishiba, Japan's new first lady, is known for her gentle demeanor and enjoys even greater popularity than her husband in his hometown of Tottori in western Japan.The couple met while studying at Keio University in Tokyo, where Shigeru Ishiba was immediately captivated by her beauty. After a spirited chase by him, they were wed in 1983.She worked at Japanese trading house Marubeni Corp., which was then embroiled in a bribery scandal involving U.S. aircraft maker Lockheed Corp. and former Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, a mentor of Shigeru Ishiba.Tanaka, arrested and indicted ov…READ FULL ARTICLE