After returning to Japan in 1936, he won many prizes in the New Symphony Orchestra (aka NHK Symphony Orchestra) contest for Japanese work etc, and made his debut as a composer. During the war, he did a lot of broadcasting work as a middle-rank musician. After the war, he joined the reconstructed Japan Contemporary Music Association in 1946 and organized a composer group “Chijinkai” with Koumei Abe, Saburō Takata and Kiyohiko Kijima in 1948. This group, aiming for cooperation between Western tradition and Japanese culture, organized work presentations five times and did creative activities mainly on chamber music works.
