Yuya Sato (佐藤友哉, Satō Yūya, born 1980) is a Japanese novelist from Hokkaido Prefecture.
Sato's short story "Same As Always" was translated for The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories (2018), and has been described as "an acerbic meditation on the complex interplay of gender and nurturing in post-Fukushima Japan."
Kenzaburō Ōe, Kenji Nakagami and especially J. D. Salinger affected Sato's style.
This is a stand-alone short story and is also the first chapter of his Novel Gray-Colored Diet Coke.
The title was named after Kenji Nakagami's Gray-Colored Coke.