I have three academic backgrounds: 1. Elementary School Education, 2. Positive Psychology, and 3. Cultural Geography in my undergraduate and master's degree. Currently, I am an MPhil/PhD student at the Institute of Education at UCL, specializing in Geography Education in CPA (curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment). 

I obtained my undergraduate degree (education) from Japan Women’s University, and transferred to Salve Regina University in the US as a psychology major student, after finishing my undergraduate. Because of the pandemic, I had to withdraw from the course, and then I worked in a university and after-school club in Japan for a year as a part-time job. After my first study abroad experience, I realised that I had focused on ‘human beings’ by studying education and psychology, but I need to consider human development in a relationship with the environment. As I have been thinking of the definition of ‘home’ for us, I studied Cultural Geography at Royal Holloway, the University of London for a year. In one year of master’s study, I learned ‘home’ means ‘sense of place,’ the emotional connection with a specific place.  My dissertation title was ‘the impact of hometown learning on children’s place attachment through analysing their drawings.’