Her work also explores the way assumptions about personality are largely driven by Japanese cultural responses to gender, job occupation, and other socio-cultural stereotypes.
[9] Sawada's OMIAI♡ series references the traditional photo book of a young woman used by her family members for an arranged marriage.
[12] Photographs in this series show Sawada attired based on trends of the Japanese youth culture and the influence of Western ideas of beauty.
[13] She dressed herself as a ganguro, described as a tan, California girl type idolizing the pop music star Namie Amuro.
Sawada finds ways of altering her presentation wearing identical school uniforms through changes to her hair style, accessories, and facial expressions, then the images are digitally combined to create the class, including a background.