Career
She is a Woman International Master. She lives in the old Kamata ward, which is now part of Ōta, Tokyo. Starting in 2000 they reportedly lived together in a de facto marriage at her home.
After Bobby Fischer"s detention on July 13, 2004 for trying to travel with a revoked United States. passport, she campaigned for his release.
They were reportedly married in August 2004. However, on March 3, 2011, a district court in Iceland ruled that Miyoko Watai, as Fischer"s widow and heir, was entitled to inherit his estate.