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December 6, 2025 – March 22, 2026 : Exhibition "Art between Japan and Korea since 1945" at Yokohama Museum of Art
My ongoing project "Japanese Wives in North Korea" is exhibited at Yokohama Museum of Art along with other artists' works. This exhibition seeks to rediscover the mutual relationship between Japan and Korea- shaped by the complex and rich histories of both countries through artworks produced since 1945.
https://yokohama.art.museum/eng/exhibition/202512_jkart1945/
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Oct 24 -Oct 30 2025 : Exhibition "In the Ashes, She Blooms- Portraits of Afghan Women"
Presented by Sony World Photography Awards at Sony Imaging Gallery Ginza, Tokyo
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February 2024 : Speaker at The National Geographic Storytellers Summit 2024 , LA
Presenting my ongoing project of Japanese wives in North Korea
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July 2023 : Outdoor exhibition at WARM Festival, Sarajevo
Exhibiting "sawasawato," my personal project on the Japanese wives who moved with their Korean spouses to North Korea between 1959 and 1984, which speaks about their memories, exploring themes of displacement, history, and personal resilience. This exhibition was the first in a series of outdoor exhibitions organized by the WARM Festival in central Sarajevo, created in collaboration with the ZANAT company.
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March 2023 : WHAT WE SEE: WOMEN & NONBINARY PERSPECTIVES THROUGH THE LENS , Print length 224 pages, PublisherWhite Lion Publishing
My photograph taken in North Korea is included in this beautiful book.
"From documenting major events such as 9/11 to capturing unseen and misrepresented communities, this book presents a revisionist contemporary history: pore over 50 years of women’s dispatches in 100 photographs by 100 photographers. Each image is accompanied by 200 words from the photographer about the experience and the subject, offering fresh insights and a much-needed perspective".
https://www.womenphotograph.com/what-we-see
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April - May 2022 : KYOTOGRAPHIE Interview "10/10" exhibition
This is an interview made for my participation in "10/10 Celebrating Contemporary Japanese Women Photographers” supported by Kering’s Women In Motion at KYOTOGRAPHIE 2022.
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January 6 - 27, 2020 : Exhibition "If apricot trees begin to bloom"
Photo Exhibition at Nikon Plaza in Shinjuku, Tokyo. "If apricot trees begin to bloom", a story about the Naryn river, which originates in the snowmelt of the Tien Shan Mountains in eastern Kyrgyzstan and flows for approximately 800 kilometers to the Fergana Valley in Uzbekistan.
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