He also won the Izumi Kyōka Prize in 2010 for a novel (Shinoda himself had earlier adapted a Kyōka novel for the screen in the 1979 Demon Pond).
Ia juga memenangkan Penghargaan Izumi Kyōka pada 2010 untuk sebuah novel (Shinoda sendiri sebelumnya mengadaptasi novel Kyōka ke layar lebar dalam Demon Pond pada 1979).