He also played an active role in a wide range of education circles by serving as a board member of Kyoto Pharmaceutical University and his alma mater, Ritsumeikan University, and elsewhere, and by sitting as President of Kyoto University of Foreign Studies.
また、母校の立命館大学や、京都薬科大学で理事職にあったほか、京都外国語大学では理事長を勤めるなど教育界においても幅広い活躍をみせた。