Takazato founded the organization Okinawa Women Act Against Military Violence in 1995 two months after the high profile rape incident by three US servicemen which would inspire it.
She contributed to the establishment of a rape crisis center in Okinawa for the victims of sexual assaults.
[4] She questions the concept of militarized security and peace forced by military intervention.
Her activism contributed to vast protests of inhabitants of Okinawa against American military presence in 1995.
“Prostitution and rape are the military system’s outlets for pent up aggression and methods of maintaining control and discipline – the target being local community women.”[5]She was among 1000 women who were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.