Background
Tani Kohei was born in Nagano Prefecture in 1903.
谷 小平
Tani Kohei was born in Nagano Prefecture in 1903.
He graduated from Waseda University (1932).
He joined the Zenrin Kyokai Moslem Institute (1940) and later taught Russian at Zenrin College of Foreign Affairs (1944). Was appointed instructor at Waseda University (1947) and assistant professor.
He was a director of Japan-Russian Literature Society and executive secretary of Students Association for Soviet Russia.