She is the general director of the project Power of Girls’ Comics and of the international touring exhibition of Girls’ Power! Shojo Manga! Her research interest is the cross-cultural study of children’s artistic and aesthetic developments in their pictorial world and how visual popular culture influences children’s visual literacy. Her recent collaborative research project is a cross-cultural study of the relationship between art and children’s comprehensive ability in Japan and the United States. She holds a PhD. She is the editor of the online Journal, Cultural Diversity in Art and Education www.csuchico.edu/~mtoku.webae and Visual Cultural Research in Art and Education www.csuchico.edu/~mtoku/vc