However, that job did not suit him well, and through the good offices of Sanzan IKEBE, the chief editor of the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun Company, he transferred to the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun and published serial novels.
だがその仕事にはあまり向かず、東京朝日新聞社主筆池辺三山のはからいで東京朝日に移籍し、小説を連載する。