Background
Fumitaro Watanabe was born in 1912 in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
史太郎 渡辺
Fumitaro Watanabe was born in 1912 in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
Fumitaro Watanabe graduated from Nagasaki Higher Commercial School in 1933.
Fumitaro Watanabe entered Mitsui Bussan Kaisha (Mitsui & Company) and served at its Moji Branch, and then turned chief of Iwakuni Business Office in 1946. With dissolution of the above company, under a postwar directive, was transferred to Nihon Jitsugyo (Business) Company as chief of its Materials Section (1947) and became its director (since 1951).