2015-present | Associate Professor, Department of Life Design, Faculty of Home Economics, Otsuma Women’s University, Japan

2014-2015 | Chief, Agricultural Administration Department, Nagano Prefectural Government, Japan

2013-2014 | Technician, Agricultural Administration Department, Nagano Prefectural Government, Japan

2009-2013 | Technician, Nagano Prefectural Fisheries Experimental Station, Japan

2006-2009 | Associate Researcher, National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Japan

2004-2006 | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellow, Ocean Sciences Centre, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

2004-2004 | Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Japan

2002-2003 | Postdoctoral Visiting Scientist, Oregon State University, OR, US

2001-2004 | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellow, Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Hokkaido University, Japan

Ph.D. School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Japan, 2001

M.Agr. School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Japan, 1998

B.Sc. Department of Biology, Shinshu University, Japan, 1996