One of his short stories, "Bokko-chan" ("Miss Bokko"), was translated into English and published in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in June 1963.

Realizing that English would now likely be absent from the high school entrance exam, Shinichi ignored it completely, instead focusing his efforts on other subjects.

When Shinichi was 16, he spent one year living in the dormitory of Tokyo High School, a time his close friends would often look back on fondly.

To this day I get headaches thinking about it before I go to sleep",[2] "I realized soon after entry, the school had a strong militaristic attitude, and not just the teachers, the students too.

[3] Such feelings are mostly because of the differences between post and mid-war life, and the fact that Shinichi finished high school in 2 years.

On top of that, his father who disliked government officials discovered he took the exam, causing Shinichi to be severely reprimanded.

So, he entered graduate school at the University of Tokyo where he studied agricultural chemistry under Kinichiro Sakaguchi (坂口謹一郎) where he manufactured the starch-degrading enzyme Amylase in liquids.

Immediately after letting go of the company, he read "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury on his hospital bed and was deeply moved.

He grew weary of the harsh realities in his daily life and became obsessed with the wondrous idea of "flying saucers."