He won the Japan Media Arts Festival Manga Award for his work Say Hello to Black Jack.
[1] His assistants have included his wife, manga artist Tomomi Satō,[2] as well as Masasumi Kakizaki (one year before his debut), Takahisa Shiratori, Itsunari Fujii, Eiji Nomura, Takashi Yoshida, and Kōjirō Umezawa.
), though his Promised Land, which was a special selection at the 1997 Afternoon Four Seasons Awards, was technically his debut.
Satō won the 2002 Japan Media Arts Festival Manga Award for his work Say Hello to Black Jack.
[1] Satō drew the cover art for Kazuyoshi Saito's June 2007 single "Kimi wa Boku no Nani wo Suki ni Nattandarou/Very Very Strong -Eine Kleine-".