Motoko as a dancer who controls both tranquility and uplift feeling freely on the stage is highly-praised by the audience. Not only that, she has started work as a choreographer in recent years. In 2006, Motoko`s solo piece of classical ballet “Revelation” was performed by Prima Ballerina Svetlana Zakharova at ` Bolshoi Ballet`. She is a 2008 recipient `Asahi Performing Arts Award” for Life Casting and won both `The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists` and `Takaya Eguchi Award` for The Rite of Spring in 2009. Motoko’s desire for creation expands her field wider. She also tried her hand at coaching National Synchronized Swimming Team and Figure skating team. Motoko leads the Japanese dance scene, continues to seek new ground,and never loses her adventurous, pioneering,and open-minded spirit. Associate Professor for dance at the the University of Tsukuba.