She was born in Kobe City, and was raised by a Taiwanese father and a Japanese mother. Her research topic centers on trans-boundary networks formation based on religion and ethnicity. She has been doing long-term field research on the Chinese Muslims in Thailand and she has published a book entitled Chinese Muslim Diaspora and Coexistence in Northern Thailand (in Japanese) in 2011. This book was awarded The 1st Japan Consortium for Area Studies (JCAS) Award, Toryu-sho (Budding Project 登龍賞Category) in 2011. She recently has started to conduct a research on Chinese Christian communities in Asia.