1995: The Photographic Society of Japan Annual Award and the Society of Photography Award for Infinite Embrace
1998: The 17th Domon Ken Award for Nadya’s Village
1998: The 8th Excellent Film Award of the Agency for Cultural Affairs for Documentary film Nadya’s Village
2002: The Readers’ Prize of the Berliner Zeitung and the International Cine Club Prize at the 52nd Berlin International Film Festival for Documentary film Alexei and the Spring
2013: The Photographic Society of Japan Award for Slaughterhouse and Ueno Station (revised edition)
Exhibitions (selected)
2002: Nadezhda - Hope The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
2016: Sense of Place The Izu Photo Museum,Shizuoka Prefecture.
Publications (selected)
The Coal Mine (Kaichosha)
Circus Time& (Kawade Shobo Shinsha)
Ueno Station (Heibonsha)
Infinite Embrace (Nishida Shoten)
Nadya’s Village(Touseisha)
Alexei and the Spring"(Shogakukan)
A Thousand Year Song of Baobab (Heibonsha)
Performance East and West" (Office emu)
Slaugherhouse (Heibonsha)
People on the Seikan Ferryboat (Tsugaru Shobo)
Sense of Place (Nohara)
Tsukiji Fish Market – A People’s Town (Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc.)