 Because she returned to Japan as an adult and chose to write in Japanese despite her coming of age in the United States and her education in English, critics have often noted her particular love for the language and her commitment to Japanese literature.Her analysis and observations on the demise of Japanese, detailed in her book of criticism titled "The Fall of the Japanese Language in the Age of English," gained much attention from the mainstream media as well as the Internet.In the same book, she wrote of the significance of preserving the great literary tradition established during the time of building modern Japan.