This series tells the story of 9 year-old Katri, a  girl who lives on a farm in Finland with her grandparents. Katri's mother has been away in Germany for three years.  The farm is not doing well, so to help support her family, she goes to work on a neighboring farm. Katri faces many struggles and challenges.

In February 1998, she came down with myelodysplastic syndrome and was transported to the Bunkyo-ku Tokyo University hospital. Three days after her 70th birthday, Kazue died in the Bunkyo-ku Tokyo University hospital annex. She presumably died from bone marrow cancer.

__Non-Anime Roles:__  E.T. in "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (Japanese dub)

Gunilla