is a Japanese novelist. He won the 2019 Akutagawa Prize for his science-fiction novel Nimuroddo (Nimrod), which "depicts relations between the advancement of science and humanism with a focus on cryptocurrency".[1] He also won the 2015 Mishima Prize for My One True Love.
In 2016, he was named by Granta magazine as one of the best young Japanese novelists.[2]