She won the gold medal in the half middleweight division at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

Emoto is married to South Korean judoka Kim Hyuk.

[3] In 2016, Emoto provided input to a manga series written by Makoto Kobayashi titled JJM: Joshi Judou-bu Monogatari.

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