Mika Imai was born in Gumma Prefecture. She decided to become a director because she had felt that there are no movies in Sign Language. She has been making short movies in Sign Language since she was 12 years old with her younger brother. She enrolled in the Wako University in 2011 and she studied about representation. In 2014, she studied abroad for studying Japanese Sign Language that is different from Japanese Language in the Chinese University of Hong Kong by getting award from the Nippon Foundation. She studied about deaf studies and Japanese Sign Language in the University as a research student in the Sign Languages research center.

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