After marrying in 1956, Toshiyuki and Yasuko Kuroki had two children and settled into a happy life tending to 60 cows on a dairy farm in Shintomi Town in Miyazaki Prefecture.
But, after 30 years of marriage, and when Yasuko was 52, she started having problems with her vision. One week after the issues arose she lost her sight suddenly to complications with diabetes.
Devastated, she withdrew from her life on the farm. Her dream of traveling with her husband was over. She locked herself inside their home and even stopped talking to people, according to a HuffPost translation of a transcript from a Fuji TV program.