🇯🇵 Short story Are You There? by Kamome Ashizawa — 9th Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award, Excellence Award, 2022 Ashizawa made 101 stories in three weeks with AI. The story that won was mostly written by Ashizawa with a little AI; the other hundred experiments were mostly machine-generated. This was the first AI-assisted story to win a Hoshi prize.
🇯🇵 Short story The Last Painter by Toh Katagiri — 12th Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award, Excellence Award, 2025 The organizers classified it as AI-assisted, but never said exactly how. A fellow finalist says Katagiri told the group that every sentence was written personally.
🇯🇵 Short story Genome Tower by Shamizui — 13th Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award, Grand Prix, 2026 The disclosed AI use was apparently limited to inventing the name of a fictional disease. The organizers still counted it among the year’s AI-assisted winners.
