Her work is focused on community responses to state policies targeting Hansen’s Disease in the first half of the twentieth century. In addition to several articles, she is the author of Kindai Nihon no Hansen-byō Mondai to Chiiki Shakai (The Problems of Hansen’s Disease and Regional Communities in Modern Japan, 2011), and the co-translator of Ann Janetta’s The Vaccinators (Shutō Denrai, 2013). Among her current projects are studies titled Rethinking the Relationship between Poverty, Social Status and Disease in Modern Japan’s Regional Communities, and Constructing a New Archival Science Theory Based on Medical Materials.