He transferred to Kome Primary School in Tokyo Prefecture due to his father's relocation, then entered Gifu Prefectural Ogaki Junior High School in 1924, but transferred to the private Nihon Junior High School (currently Nihon Gakuen High School) in Tokyo Prefecture when he was in the fourth grade of junior high school and graduated the next year.
父の転勤により東京の小梅小学校に転校、1924年に岐阜県立大垣中学に入学、しかし、中学4年の時、東京の私立日本中学（現・日本学園高校）に転校し、翌年に卒業。