He served as a professor of the physics department at the College of Science, Tohoku Imperial University.

Between 1908 and 1911 he studied in Germany and in 1912 defended his PhD at Tohoku Imperial University with recommendations from the chancellor.

Soon after, he assumed the post of professor at the university's then newly established College of Science.

In 1922, he served as an interpreter during the visit of Albert Einstein in Japan.

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