After four years there he was sent back to Tokyo to study at the Seijo elementary and middle schools, which only the Japanese aristocracy could attend. Eventually, after graduating from Touhoko Imperial University, he got a job in Tokyo. It was only after Taiwan's return to Chinese rule that he came back to the island. Thus one can say that his childhood and youth were spent in Japan.
他出生於東京，滿月後就被送回福州，由祖母撫養，八歲回到台北，就讀樺山小學，五年級又被送到東京，念只有日本貴族才能就讀的成城小學、中學，一直到日本東北帝國大學畢業後，在東京就業，光復後才回到台灣，他的少年及青年時光，可說是在日本度過。