He was awarded the 137th Akutagawa Prize in 2007 for Asatte no Hito (アサッテの人, "The person of the day after tomorrow").
He graduated from the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Letters, Kokugakuin University in Tokyo.
The title refers to the protagonist, an eccentric middle-aged man who is constantly distracted and lives his life outside of the usual rules of society.
[2] The narrator is the protagonists nephew, an author, who has to solve the mystery of his uncle’s disappearance,[3] having decided to write a book about it.
[2] Asatte no hito has been translated into Norwegian under the title En hinsides mann (A man beyond).