He won the Eiji Yoshikawa Award for New Writers in 2009 for Tenchi Meisatsu, and the Fūtarō Yamada Award in 2012 for Mitsukuniden.
Ubukata debuted as a short story writer in 1996, and he won the Kadokawa Sneaker Grand Prize with the work “Kuroi Kisetsu” (Black Season).
The story is a locked-room mystery where 12 kids go into an abandoned hospital to give up on life.
Afternoon magazine is revealing on Saturday that Takatoshi Kumakura will launch a manga adaptation of Tow Ubukata’s Jūni-nin no Shinitai Kodomo-tachi (Twelve Children Who Want to Die) novel in the next issue on June 7.