A graduate of the Tokyo Foreign Language School, he studied at Berlin University where he received his doctorate.
After serving as a professor at Waseda University, he was attached to the Army General Staff. An expert on diplomatic affairs, especially those of the Balkan countries, he was looked upon as an authority on the subject by the military circles during World War I. He was later president of Kokushikan College and director of its attached middle school. Was an educationist of a militaristic turn of mind.