In 1984, while attending University of Southern California, majoring in Biological Science, she debuted as a singer/lyric writer from Island Ze Record, as a member of an international rap group called Daisy Chain with a sensational first single, "No Time to Stop Believing in Love." in Europe and Asia.  By this sensational hit, she was called back to Japan from the prime time syndicated music variety show by TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting Systems, one of the major networks in Japan) to appear on the show as a regular musician.
After doing this show by TBS in 1985, she launched her career as a lyric writer in Japan, and wrote TV commercial jingles, movie sound tracks and records / CDs.
In 1989, she returned to Los Angeles to finish USC, but she continued to work for the Japanese media as a music journalist, interviewing various rock musicians for Japanese music magazines, as a DJ and reporter for the number of radio shows from the studios in LA to be broadcasted in Japan, and as a weekly colomunist for a very popular 1.1 million-a-week circulated magazine for 4 and a half years.
In 1995, she had her very first book published by Kodansha, a major publisher in Japan, and since then, 13 books had been published and currently two more books has already been contracted with major Japanese publishers.
More than 300 of her articles and essays have appeared in various publications, and she has translated more than 150 songs from Japanese to English or vice versa.
Since Feb. 2007, she began writing a monthly column for the most popular Japanese magazine called Lighthouse in Southern California.

Graduated from USC with a degree in Communications;  ASCAP member.
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