 He then continued his studies, and was a graduate of the Literature Department of Meiji University, where he met a group of young poets interested in modernism.He was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1943, and although he did not see combat, the fact that many of his friends died in the war left him psychologically scarred.In 1947, after World War II, he revived the literary magazine "Arechi" ("The Waste Land"), with his surviving school friends, and became an important figure in post-war modern Japanese poetry.