In order to meet the requirement for enhancing the speed of an optical disk apparatus, it is necessary to have a write strategy for compensating thermal interference during recording at high speed on a high-density optical disk such as BD. However, there has been no known technology for such a write strategy. By shifting the start position and the end position of a recording pulse in accordance with the preceding mark length, the preceding space length, the recording mark length, and the following space length, excellent jitter values have been obtained. Further, by simplifying parameters when the preceding pattern contains the shortest mark and the shortest space which cause large thermal interference, 12× BD recording can be achieved with the number of parameters smaller than double the number of parameters of the conventional 4×4 type write strategy.