She graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University with the Bachelor of Letters degree.
[4] After that, she worked as a temporary teacher of the elementary school in Okayama for two years.
Asano received the Noma Prize for Juvenile Literature in 1997 for the book series Battery,[1] which has been adapted into a film.
[7] The same series won the Shogakukan Children's Publication Culture Award in 2005.
[1] Her work frequently appears in literary magazines and she has also been featured in the Mainichi Shimbun.