Awards


Commissioner for Cultural Affairs Award
2025.12
Commendation from the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs


2025 CWA Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation
2025.06                  
Winner
■ The Night of Baba Yaga by Akira Otani


2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
2023.03
Finalist
■ All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami


2022 International Booker Prize
2022.05                  
Shortlist  
■ Heaven by Mieko Kawakami


2019-2021 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize
2019.11
Winner    
■ Star by Yukio Mishima


2nd JLPP International Translation Competition
2016.03
Grand Prize
□ “A Peddler of Tears” by Yoko Ogawa
□ “Runs from Scissors” by Toshiyuki Horie


2007 Amagasaki Japanese Speech Contest
2008.02
First Prize
□ "My Chopsticks, My Problem"