An information recording apparatus using an optical recording medium includes a light source to irradiate a light beam to the optical recording medium and a pulse former for forming a plurality of recording pulses of the light beam. A leading edge of a first recording pulse of the recording pulses shifts at a shifting value, and the shifting value is determined by a combination of a length of M(n) of a mark being currently written and a length s(n−1) of a space precedent to the mark.