Scored her first WSL goal in a 3-4 home defeat by Tottenham Hotspur on 21 January 2024…Started and finished West Ham United’s opening 20 WSL matches…Started all three of the Hammers’ FA Women’s League Cup group-stage ties…Started the 1-3 Women’s FA Cup fourth-round defeat by Chelsea on 14 January 2024…Helped Japan qualify for the 2024 Women’s Olympic Tournament with a 2-1 aggregate win over North Korea in February 2024.

Joined West Ham United on a two-year contract on 28 August 2022…Made her West Ham United debut and kept her first clean sheet in a 1-0 WSL home win over Everton on 18 September 2022…Appeared in all 22 WSL matches, making 21 starts, and kept five clean sheets as West Ham United finished eighth in the 12-team table…Started all five FA Women’s League Cup ties as the Hammers reached the semi-finals…Started the Women’s FA Cup fourth-round penalty shootout defeat by Aston Villa on 26 February 2023…Ended her debut season with the Hammers with 28 appearances to her name in all competitions, and eight clean sheets…Started all five ties for Japan at the FIFA Women’s World Cup in New Zealand in August 2023, scoring in a 3-1 round of 16 win over Norway to become the first Hammer to score at a Women’s World Cup finals, before being eliminated by Sweden in the quarter-finals.

Born in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan on 15 June 1996…Began playing football at the age of seven…Moved with her family to Yokohama and joined local club FC Susukino Ladies…Joined Japan’s Menina youth academy at the age of 12…Joined Tokyo Verdy Beleza in 2009 before being promoted into the first-team squad at the age of 17 in 2013…Made her senior Nadeshiko League Division 1 debut for Tokyo Verdy Beleza in the 2014 season and helped her team finish as runners-up…Was an ever-present as Tokyo Verdy Beleza as the club won the Nadeshiko League Division 1 title in 2015, before repeating that success in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019…Named in the Nadeshiko League Division 1 Best XI in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022…Started Tokyo Verdy Beleza’s Empress’s Cup final wins over Urawa Red Diamonds in 2014, Nojima Stella Kanagawa Sagamihara in 2017, INAC Kobe Leonessa in 2018, and Urawa Red Diamonds again in 2019 and 2020…Won the Nadeshiko Division 1 League Cup with Tokyo Verdy Beleza in 2016, 2018 and 2019…Was part of the Tokyo Verdy Beleza side which won the inaugural AFC Women’s Club Championship in South Korea in November 2019, drawing with Jiangsu Suning of China before defeating Incheon Hyundai Steel Red Angels of South Korea and Melbourne Victory of Australia to top the table…Appeared for Japan at U14, U16 and U17 levels, scoring in a group-stage win over Mexico at the 2021 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Azerbaijan, where Japan reached the quarter-finals…Won the AFC U-19 Women’s Championship in China in 2015…Made her senior debut for Japan in a 2-0 MS&AD Cup win over Switzerland on 22 October 2017…Appeared five times and started at right-back in the final as Japan defeated Australia to win the AFC Women’s Asian Cup in Jordan in April 2018…Won a Gold medal as Japan won the Asian Games in Indonesia in August 2018, defeating China in the final…Appeared four times at the FIFA Women’s World Cup in France in 2019 as Japan were eliminated in the round of 16 by the Netherlands…Started all four ties for Japan at the 2020 Olympic Games on home turf, where they were beaten by eventual Gold medallists Sweden in the quarter-finals…Won the EAFF East Asian Football Championship with Japan in 2019 and 2022, and was named tournament Most Valuable Player at the latter.