The title of her PhD thesis was 'The Formation and Impact of the Scottish Evangelicals' Programme for Working-class Education, 1818–1846, Including its Influence in Post-meiji Japan'.
[2][7] She visualised the project as an expression of hope for those affected by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
She participated in the concert by reading a selection of Tōge Sankichi's work 'Poems of the Atomic Bomb'.
[11] Through her guidance, the fundraising concert was able to raise funds to support a high school girl who lost her only parent in the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011.
During her stay in the United Kingdom, Atsuko was also active in the Day After the Tsunami Committee and Save the Children, Japan.