Fusae Miyamoto was born in Japan on 15 October 1911.

At the age of 100, Miyamoto met soprano singer, Ayako Murakami, when she traveled by train to visit her parents’ graves. Murakami kindly helped a complete stranger, Miyamoto, get on and off the train, and during the train ride, Miyamoto told Murakami about her life history for about 15 minutes. Part of Fusae Miyamoto’s biography became known when Murakami published the contents of that conversation on her blog.

According to Murakami’s blog, Miyamoto was physically weak in her youth, to the point she could not stand up when she was four years old. She also went blind in one eye at the age of 7, and these health conditions prevented her from attending primary school. Her frail health was later improved by acupuncture and her eyes and legs were completely cured. She lost her parents when she was young and worked in her relatives’ homes as a farmer.

At the age of 18, she left the home of her relatives on the farm to work in a textile mill. At the age of 20, she contracted tuberculosis. Due to her misfortunes and hardships that have continued since her childhood, she lost hope for life many times, but she became strong both physically and mentally after joining her religion. She recovered from tuberculosis spontaneously sometime after she was 30 years old.

At some point she moved into a nursing home in Fukuyama. Ayako Murakami, who helped Miyamoto get on and off the train 11 years ago, was invited to celebrate her 111th birthday, and congratulated her with a song.

Miyamoto passed away in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan on 27 April 2023 at the age of 111 years, 194 days.