A native of Kamo, Niigata, she graduated from a high school in Kamo and studied in Heilongjiang University in China.
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He received honorary doctorates from Victoria University in the University of Toronto, and from McMaster University, and was made an honorary professor at Beijing University, the University of Science and Technology Beijing, and Heilongjiang University.