She was a student of Japanese language and culture and wanted to continue her education.
She writes horror and supernatural based in Japanese folklore while she is the translator for Kenzaburō Ōe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature.
She also translates for Mariko Koike who writes detective and horror fiction.
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