Born June11,1987 in Wakayama Prefecture.
Director, Organizing Committee for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
I started gymnastics when I was six years old.
Her father runs a gymnastics club and her mother is also a gymnast, so she grew up in a gymnastics family.
She is also the first Japanese woman to win the Longines Prize for Elegance at the 2010 World Gymnastics Championships, and the first to win the Women's Individual All-Around at the 2012 All-Japan Championships.
In the same year, she also won the NHK Cup Gymnastics Women's Individual All-Around and qualified for the London Olympics.
Her older brother Kazuhito and younger brother Yusuke also qualified for the Olympics, making it the first time in Japan's gymnastics history that all three brothers participated in the Olympics together.
At the London Olympics, he helped the team reach the finals for the second consecutive time (finishing in 8th place), and also placed 16th in the individual all-around.
She retired from gymnastics in 2013 and has appeared on TV and at events.
She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Organizing Committee for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Finished 2nd in the 2009 All-Japan Championships and 5th in the Universiade.
Entered graduate school at NITTAI University in 2010, 4th place in both All Japan Championships and NHK Cup.
At the World Championships, she received the Longines Prize for Elegance for the most beautiful performance.
Won the bronze medal in the individual all-around and the silver medal in the vault at the 2011 Asian Games.
Won the victory , 2012 All Japan Championships in Women's Individual All-Around and NHK Cup Gymnastics Women's Individual All-Around.
Participated in the 2012 London Olympics with her brother Kazuhito and brother Yusuke.
2013 Announced her retirement from gymnastics.
Appointed as a member of the board of directors of the Tokyo Organizing Committee for the 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Games.