Her writings discuss issues on power, gender inequality, the discourses in a Japanese workplace, and racism in the fashion industry.
Her book launch for Worldmaking: Race, Performance and the Work of Creativity, was postponed three years due to her open-heart surgery.
In her book Worldmaking: Race, Performance and the Work of Creativity, Kondo posits the racialized constructions of imbalance that pervade theater and the arts.
Grounded in twenty years of hands on work as dramaturge and writer, Kondo activates critical race researches, influence hypothesis, analysis, and emotional composition to abrasively break down performance center's work of inventiveness as hypothesis: acting, writing, and dramaturgy.
[4] Paul H. Noguchi, an American Anthropologist, commented on Kondo's book Crafting Selves: "The ethnography of Japan is currently being reshaped by a new generation of Japanologists, and the present work certainly deserves a place in this body of literature.