[2] Hosoki began managing Tokyo clubs and coffee shops while still a teenager, eventually running up debts to Japanese organized crime members.
[3] In 1983, she married influential Japanese power broker Masahiro Yasuoka, who died that same year.
[3] Hosoki appeared frequently on the original Iron Chef, where she served as one of the four celebrity judges that would determine the outcome of each match.
[7] She had repeatedly made very traditionalist statements on women in the family, stating that a woman's main function should be to support her husband's career.
[citation needed] Hosoki's celebrity fans include sumo wrestling yokozuna (grand champion) Asashōryū.