After graduating from Tokyo Furitsu Number Three Middle School under the prewar education system (present Tokyo Metropolitan Ryogoku high school) and the (Japan) Imperial Fisheries Institute (present Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology) under the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, he entered Kyoto Imperial University, Faculty of Economics.
旧制府立第三中学（現東京都立両国高等学校）、農商務省(日本)水産講習所（現東京海洋大学）卒業後、京都帝国大学経済学部に入学。