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Born in Niigata, she grew up with mountains on the horizon. Not as a backdrop. As presence. As something that asked something of her. And so in 2015, when the question of what to do with her life became impossible to ignore, she did not look to the city for answers. She looked north. She moved to Hokkaido — not for comfort, not for convenience, but because she was searching for work that connected her to the mountain. Work that meant something. Work that was alive.
 

She kept going until she found Nakagawa — a small, unhurried town deep in the forests of northern Hokkaido — and quietly, without fanfare, she stayed.