[6] Makino was studying in Boston at the same time as physical educator Inokuchi Akuri, and the women were often mentioned together in news reports.

[3][7] She appeared in the cast of a Japanese drama, Danjuro no tanjobi, in Boston in 1904.

[9] In 1905 she returned to Japan with Mitsu Okada, a Japanese special student at Wellesley College.

[10] Makino, Inokuchi, and Okada were all involved with the Japanese Club of Boston, and raised money for the organization's clubhouse in 1902.

[11] Makino taught school in Japan in the 1890s,[2] and was a secretary and translator at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts while she was a student at MIT.