on My Precious”, and it was her debut work. She became famous when some of her works were made into movie or TV drama, for example, “Hankyu Densha”, “Kencho Omotemashika” and so on. Especially, she was catapulted into fame by “The Library War (Toshokan Senso)” series. It won the first prize of entertainment for the first half of 2006 chosen by Hon no Zasshi's, and also won the fifth in the Honya Taisho for that year in 2007. Other than that, she got the 39th Seiunsho Japanese novel prizes for “The