Born in Kamakura, Japan 1975, Hana has lived in Vancouver, Canada, London, UK and now lives in Budapest, Hungary. She studied Graphic Design BA at Camberwell College of Arts in London, and has finished her MA Animation at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest in 2018, and in 2020 she continued to study multimedia design DLA at the same university. She has also worked as a media designer for architectural 3D software company, GRAPHISOFT since 2008.