[1] She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Amherst College (1984[1]) and holds a doctorate from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
[6] She also works as an expert consultant on Japan-related projects for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C..[5][7] Sakamoto is the author of Japanese Diplomats and Jewish Refugees (1998),[4] based on her dissertation.
[10] Her 2016 book Midnight in Broad Daylight, a true-life story about the Japanese-American Fukuhara family divided by World War II, and the Japanese-American war hero Harry K. Fukuhara, was listed by Kirkus Reviews as one of the best nonfiction books of 2016.
[11] This book also touches on the internment of Japanese Americans, life in wartime Japan, the Japanese-American Military Intelligence Service, and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
[13] At Amherst College, Sakamoto was a Phi Beta Kappa student and a XXIV Amherst-Doshisha Fellow.