Background
Ikaturo Sugimoto was born in Kyoto in 1902.
郁太郎 杉本
Ikaturo Sugimoto was born in Kyoto in 1902.
He graduated from Osaka Municipal Higher Commercial School in 1924.
In 1924 he entered Osaka Branch of Mitsukoshi Department Store. He transferred to Naraya Company (1929) and became its director (1931) and then president (1937).
He held additional posts of director of Shochikuen Chaten Kaisha (Shochiku Garden Tea House Company) (1919) and chairman of Chiba Hojinltai (Chiba Society of Judicial Persons) and Chiba Kanko Kyokai (Chiba Tourist Industry Association).