 Japanese government support for Paralympic athletes is limited, and while training for the London Olympics in 2012 she found it difficult to raise enough funds to compete and to purchase a new prosthetic leg.She published a calendar in which she appears semi-nude with her prosthetic leg, photographed by photographer Takao Ochi.The calendar sold more than 3,000 copies and raised more than US$50,000 for equipment, training and travel expenses.