She holds seminars at Italian and Japanese universities. Kazuyo was born in Tokyo, where she took a design degree at Musashino University of Arts, and began to work in the fields of industrial design and interior architecture. Since 1989 she has lived and worked in Milan, where after having worked with Denis Santachiara she opened her own studio.

She has participated in many exhibitions and events in Europe and Far East. She works with a number of companies, including Acerbis International, Bernini, Fabriano Boutique, Calligaris, Driade, Dornbracht, Elica, Fedrigoni, Ferrero, I 4 Mariani, Mogu, Moleskine, Panasonic, Pandora Design, Sony and Yamaha Motor. Her designs are in the permanent collections of an impressive amount of museums - such as Triennale di Milano, the Museum fur Angewandte, Kunst Köln, Museo Maguma and Musashino Art University Library collection.