[1][2][3] Urano was involved in track and field at Nakanobu Gakuen High School (中延学園高校) , as her father was a shot putter.

[1][3] She became captain of the Judo club and won the 61 kg weight class at the Tokyo University Championships.

[2][3] In 1990, two years after starting wrestling, she won her first World Championships in the 75kg weight class.

[1][2] She then moved down to the 65kg weight class and won the World Championships for three consecutive years starting in 1994.

[3][5] in 2013, Urano became a member of the UWW (then FILA) Women and Sport Commission.