is a Japanese writer from

Nagoya is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city and third most populous urban area in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020. Located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, it is the capital and the most po ...

Aichi is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Aichi Prefecture has a population of 7,552,873 () and a geographic area of with a population density of . Aichi Prefecture borders Mie Prefecture to the west, Gifu Prefecture ...

. He was awarded the 137th

Akutagawa Prize The is a Japanese literary award presented biannually. Because of its prestige and the considerable attention the winner receives from the media, it is, along with the Naoki Prize, one of Japan's most sought after literary prizes. History Th ...

in 2007 for ''Asatte no Hito'' (アサッテの人, "The person of the day after tomorrow"). The novel was first published in the literary magazine ''

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'', winning the magazine's award for new writers.

Work

* ''Asatte no hito'' ().

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, 2007, * ''Risun'' (). Kōdansha, 2008, * ''Lombardia enkei'' (). Kōdansha, 2009, * ''Ryōdo'' (). Shinchōsha, 2011, , Kurzgeschichtensammlung * ''Suwa-shi monjū'' (). Kōdansha, 2012, * ''Hen-ai zōshoshitsu'' (). Kokushokankōkai, 2014, * ''Gan-yen no Joō'' ().

Shinchosha is a publisher founded in 1896 in Japan and headquartered in Yaraichō, Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinchosha is one of the sponsors of the Japan Fantasy Novel Award. Books * Haruki Murakami: '' Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'' (19 ...

, 2017,

References

1969 births Living people Japanese writers Akutagawa Prize winners People from Nagoya Academic staff of Aichi Shukutoku University {{Japan-writer-stub