In a sentence

Her brother has stood among the world’s top five for years, and now she is rising faster.

Playing style

  • Two-winged inverted-rubber loop, balanced forehand and backhand with fast transition
  • Tested in senior events since her early teens, with match maturity beyond her age
  • Balanced across singles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles, a utility player in team events

Career and key moments

She is Tomokazu Harimoto’s younger sister. At the Paris 2024 Olympics, at 16, she won women’s team silver with Japan; the same year she won the women’s team title and women’s singles runner-up at the Asian Championships. In 2025 she took women’s doubles bronze at the World Championships with Miyu Kihara and women’s team silver with Japan at the Chengdu Mixed Team World Cup. In 2026 she swept the senior women’s singles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles plus the under-18 women’s singles at the All Japan Championships for four titles; that year she also won the WTT Chongqing Champions women’s singles and the Singapore Grand Smash women’s doubles (with Hina Hayata), and women’s team silver at the London World Championships.

What she left the game

She and her brother Tomokazu give Japan two world-class talent lines in both men’s and women’s table tennis for the first time. For the Chinese team, her name will sit near the top of the main-rivals list for years to come.

In a sentence: Players born in 2008 are already winning titles — that is the renewal rate of this sport today.