Having joined Nikkei in 1992, she started her journalistic career in Osaka where she mainly covered business re-building efforts after The Great Hanshin Earthquake. From 1996 onward, she wrote stories on local administration in Tokyo and other municipal governments before moving to a different post to focus on writing news relating to aging society, lowering birth-rate, and diversity issues. In 2007, she took the opportunity to accompany her partner to the U.S. where she pursued academic career in Columbia University to look into the U.S. policy on immigrants from the summer in 2007 to December 2008. Having returned to Japan with her family in 2011, she re-joined Nikkei to lead the Working Women’s section on The Nikkei before assuming the current position.