In 1946, he was selected by Kishida as a research assistant, a position he held for fifteen years, enabling him to lay a firm theoretical foundation for his later work.
一九四六年，他被網羅到岸田研究室擔任助手（以前只是跟班），郭茂林在這研究室待了十五年，奠定了理論與實務上的基礎。