Career
She quit running as an amateur and began her professional career with the South & B Foods Incorporated. Athletic Club, which included among its members her coach, Kiyoshi Nakamura, and Toshihiko Seko, then one of the top marathon runners in the world. She set a new Japanese record of 2:35:00 at the Christchurch Marathon in June 1982.
She retired from competition after setting her personal best time of 2:33:57 at the Nagoya Marathon in March 1995, and she then served as a coach at the South & B Athletic Club for a while.
On June 29, 2009, Japanese news media reported that she died on June 27 at the age of 53 due to colorectal cancer.