2 Quotes & Sayings By Suguro Chayamachi

After graduating from the Tokyo University of Education, Chayamachi began his career as a teacher. He moved to Kyoto in 1937 and worked as a foreign languages teacher at Kyoto Gakuin University until 1941. In the same year, he was drafted into the Japanese army and served in Manchukuo (the puppet state established by Japan and Germany in northeast China) until 1945. After the war, he returned to Kyoto and worked at Kyoto Gakuin University until 1951, when he became Professor of Russian Language and Literature at Kyoto University Read more

He was Director of the East Asian Languages Center (EALC) (1951-58) and President of Kyoto Gakuin University (1961-65).