 In 2001, she returned to publishing with the concluding part of "Fūko to Yūrei".She won the Japan Juvenile Writers Association Prize 2007 for "Rainette, Kin Iro no Ringo", a love story of a Japanese girl and a Belarusian boy who was exposed to radiation of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.In May 2008, she wrote a story for Shōjo manga after an interval of 18 years.