The following year he submitted Going My Way to a call for original novels for the Nippon Television program Night Prism, where his work received an honorable mention.
In 1964 he won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Satsui to iu Na no Kachiku (殺意という名の家畜 A Livestock Named Murderous).
As a result of his success in mystery writing he was named one of the "three hard-boiled crows" alongside fellow authors Takashi Takajo and Haruhiko Ōyabu, all of whom were born in 1935.
[7][9][11] His story "Hikari," originally published in 1976 in Shukan Shosetsu, was translated and printed in the 2007 anthology Speculative Japan: Outstanding Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy.
The story focuses on a narrator riding a train at night who seeing a distant city of shining light and then learns about the people who live there.