Background
Hara was born in 1890, in Niigata, Japan.
Hara was born in 1890, in Niigata, Japan.
He graduated from English Literature Section of Waseda University in 1914 and the Russian Language Section of Tokyo Foreign Language School in 1917.
Hara Hisaichiro was appointed instructor of the Russian Language Section of Waseda University (1921) and engaged in translating various Russian literatures. He was deeply interested in Tolstoy, attempted to introduce to Japan, the idealistic realism and humanism in Russian literature.