[6] She is also the representative director and founder of Nekomado (株式会社ねこまど), a shogi promotion, education and publishing company.

Kitao was quite impressed with the strength of Styczyńska's play, eventually found out who she was and then made arrangements for her to come and practice shogi in Japan.

[7] Styczyńska, through Kitao's further encouragement and support, eventually went on to become the first non-Japanese to be awarded any type of professional status by the Japan Shogi Association.

[8] In February 2006, the JSA announced on its official website the engagement of Kitao to shogi professional Daisuke Katagami.

[9][10] On June 12, 2016, Katagami posted on his personal blog that he had gotten divorced some time ago, and that he had gotten married again to someone else about two months earlier.