Background
Hirofumi Watanabe was born in 1893 in Fukuoka Prefecture.
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Education
Hirofumi Watanabe graduated from Tokyo Foreign Language School in 1915.
Career
Hirofumi Watanabe served with Yokohama Specie Bank. Became managing director of Nakayama Mining Company (1933), managing director of Tekko Hambai Tosei Kaisha (Iron & Steel Sales Control Company) (1942), director of Nihon Steel Pipe Company (1943) and managing director (1944) and senior managing director of Nihon Kokan Kogyo Kaisha (Nihon Steel Pipe & Mining Company). Appointed president of the reorganized Nihon Steel Pipe & Mining Company (1949).
