 He won the Noma Literary New Face Prize for "Fantasista" in 2003.Other works include "The Poisoned Singles Hot Springs" (2002), "Naburiai" (2003), "Lonely Hearts Killer" (2004), "Alkaloid Lovers" (2005), "The Worussian-Japanese Tragedy" (2006), "The Story of Rainbow and Chloe" (2006), and the collection "We the Children of Cats" (2006).His short story "Sand Planet" was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize for 2002 *.