After studying German literature in Tokyo and in Cologne she started working as a freelance translator with a main focus on contemporary authors and children’s literature. She participated in the Merck Social Translating Project 2019 by Goethe-Institute Korea. In 2021 she was awarded the 7th Best Translation Award for her translation of Judith Schalansky's “An Inventory of Losses”. She lives in Yokohama/Japan.

• Carl Gustav Jung: Dream Analysis. (co-translation) Walter, Olten 1984.,
• Cornelia Funke: Drachenreiter. Dressler, Hamburg 1997.,
• Cornelia Funke: Herr der Diebe. Dressler, Hamburg 2000.,
• Osamu Nishitani: Wunderland der Unsterblichkeit. (co-translation) Iudicium, München 2015.,
• Judith Schalansky: Verzeichnis einiger Verluste. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2018.
• Judith Schalansky: Hals der Giraffe. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2011.
• Emine Sevgi Özdamar: Mutterzunge. Rotbuch (Suhrkamp), Berlin 1990.
• Julya Rabinowich: Dazwischen: Ich. Carl Hanser, Köln 2016. (Shortlisted for the 1st Japan Teen Readers Choice Award for International Literature 2025)
• Julya Rabinowich: Dazwischen: Wir. Carl Hanser, Köln 2022. (Shortlisted for the 2nd Japan Teen Readers Choice Award for International Literature 2026)