Career
As of 2014, Yoshida had only two senior career losses, to Marcie Van Dusen (0–2) on January 20, 2008 at the Team World Cup series, and to Valeria Zholobova (1–2) on May 27, 2012 at the World Cup. Yoshida was the flagbearer for Japan at the 2006 Asian Games and at the 2012 Olympics. Yoshida started competing internationally as a cadet, in 1998, in the 52 kg category.
By 2002, when she moved to seniors, she competed in the 59 kg division.
The same year, she lost 4 kg, and remained in the 55 kg category until 2014. She moved to the 53 kg class at the 2014 World Cup and World Championships as part of her preparation for the 2016 Olympics, where the traditional 48–55–63–75 kg scheme will be changed to 48–53–58–63–69–75 kg.
However, two weeks after the World Championships she returned to the 55 kg category at the 2014 Asian Games, which kept the old weight divisions. She started training in wrestling aged 3, following her father and two elder brothers.
Since 2011 she is a face of the ALSOK security group and regularly appears in their commercials.
In December 2008, the wrestling singlet which Yoshida wore in the Olympic final bout earlier that year, was sold for 551,000 yen (ca United States$6,123) at an internet auction, and the money was donated to the Japanese Red Cross society. In 2013, when the International Olympic Committee named wrestling as a candidate for exclusion from the Games, she became an active part of the Japanese lobbying team that persuaded the International Olympic Committee to retain wrestling at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. In May 2014 Yoshida made a cameo appearance in the Japanese television drama Tokyo Metropolitan Guard Center, and later wished to resume acting after retiring from wrestling.
Tokyo Sports
Special Award (2014, 2015).