In July 2011, he published the first volume of his first breakout work No-Rin (のうりん), which won him the newly established Ranobezuki Shotenin Taishō award in 2012.
His journalism of the seventh and decisive game of the 3rd Eiō Shōgi competition featuring Kōta Kanai versus Taichi Takami in April 2018, featured on Niconico News, won him the grand prize in the 31st Shōgi Pen Club Taishō Kanseki Division awards.
"[3] With the substantial tuition expenses and having to care for family at home, he had to find a job that allowed him to work remotely and so, he decided on becoming a light novel author.
[11] Initially, Shiratori was ashamed of being a light novel writer,[12] so for a short while after his debut, he changed his name, hometown and birthday to avoid being found out.
[13] His old profile stated that he was born in 1977,[14] that he was from Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture,[14] and that after graduating from university, he worked in a company that manufactured coin-operated parking space bumpers.
[14] When the third volume of No-Rin was published, a picture of Shiratori appeared in a newspaper which revealed his work to his family and friends, so he rectified his author profile.
"[12] His mother's death was a particular shock to him, once writing that even after winning an award for Ryuo!, and after learning that his series would be adapted as an anime, when he should be thinking that he had everything he wanted, he believed that in reality he "had nothing.
[17] In 2018, FC Gifu released a keychain in collaboration with Shiratori which depicted the author dressed in his signature Ryūō (promoted rook, lit.