A Japanese pianist, she attended Tokyo University of the Arts before continuing her studies at the Paris Conservatoire. She launched her international career as winner of the Grand Prix in the Marguerite Long and Jacques Thibaud International Competition in Paris (1975). In 1980 she came fifth in the Chopin Competition in Warsaw. She has performed throughout the world in 38 countries, at such venues at the Berlin Philharmonic, Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Teatro Colon, Suntory Hall, Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Salle Pleyel and Wigmore Hall. She has played with such ensembles as the Orchestra of the 18th Century, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, all the leading Japanese orchestras, and orchestras in Russia, Poland, Slovakia and Argentina, working with such conductors as Frans Bruggen, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Marek Janowski, Theodor Guschlbauer, Lawrence Foster and Yutaka Sado. In addition to two-piano recitals with Martha Argerich, she has collaborated with such distinguished artists as Ivry Gitlis, Augustin Dumay, Regis Pasquier, Angela Hewitt, Michel Dalberto, the Morauges Quintet, and the Parisii, Manfred and Via Nova quartets. She appears annually at many prestigious festivals in Europe, Japan and the US, and has performed at ‘Chopin and his Europe’ many times. She has recorded Chopin’s complete etudes, preludes, nocturnes and impromptus, and also his E minor Concerto, as well as works by Grieg, Franck, Ravel, Faure, Webern and others. Made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government, she is also a recipient of Japan’s prestigious ExxonMobil Music Prize and the bronze medal of the Polish ‘Gloria Artis’ order for services to culture. She has been a juror of major international piano competitions, including the Chopin Competition in Warsaw and the Hamamatsu in Japan. She is president of the Chopin Society of Japan (since March 2020) and of the programme committee of the Yokohama City International Piano Festival.