She is one of the few athletes who started both in the Winter Games 2002 and 2006 (in the 500 m speed skating event) and in the 2004 Summer Games (in the 500 m time trial cycling event, placing 10th).
She holds the Japanese records in the 500 m speed skating and the 500 m time trial event.
From 2006 to 2011, she was sponsored by the construction company Daiwa House Industries Co. Ltd. She retired in 2011.
This biographical article on a speed skater in Japan is a stub.
You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This biographical article relating to Japanese cycling is a stub.