The lecturer has been contributing to the Japanese language education of researchers, working on Japan, dimplomats, foreign students and business-people since as early as the mid-seventies. She founded Communica Institute in 1988 in the city of Kobe. The institution teaches Japanese to students, business-people and foreign residents from more than 35 coutries. It also offers intercultural communication related instruction to Japanese teachers, managers and employees. Councilor at the Assossiation for the Promotion of Japanese Education, Member of the Board of the The Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language, Representative Director of the Society for Business Japanese Research, Member of the Board of the Japanese Language Education Support Association, etc.