Yukiko Motomura has been working since 1989 for The Mainichi Newspapers, the oldest newspaper in Japan which has 4 million circulations. In 2001, she moved to Science & Environment News section to start her career as a science journalist. She has been passionate about filling the gap between science and humanities, especially between science and society. In order to solve this problem, she began a series of article titled Rikei Hakusho(The Whitepaper of Scientists) in 2002, and has been dealing with various topics. In addition to it, she has been acting as a leading science communicator. She has been invited to more than 100 symposiums. She also gave more than 50 lectures at universities, museums and so on. Through these activities, she was awarded “Science Journalist of the Year” by Japanese Association of Science & Technology Journalists (JASTJ) in 2006. In the next year, she studied science communication at Imperial College London.