She was the founder of the Michiko Inukai Foundation, which provides financial aid for refugees seeking education.

She had a younger brother Yasuhiko Inukai, a journalist who later became president of Kyodo News,[1] and a half-sister Kazu Ando, an essayist.

Sadako Ogata, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, is Michiko's first cousin once removed.

Having graduated from Gakushuin Girls' School and Tsuda College, Michiko Inukai went to study philosophy in Boston, Massachusetts in 1948.

Her first book Ojosan Horoki was published in 1958,[1] and she has since written essays about the Bible and Christianity.