His benefactors, Yasuba and Mitsuhiro OKADA (later changed to AGAWA), also recommended him to become a doctor, thus he reluctantly entered the Sukagawa Medical School when he was 17 years old.
恩師・安場や岡田（阿川）光裕の進めもあって17歳で須賀川医学校に気の進まないまま入学。