Background
Iwao Kuraoka was born in 1882 in Kagoshima Prefecture. He was the eldest son of Masatoshi.
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In 1903 Iwao Kuraoka briefly attended the Tokyo College of Foreign Languages and left as an interpreter for the military during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905).
Career
After the war Iwao Kuraoka returned to Manchuria as a cultivator as well as a distiller of sake from kaoliang. He also founded a slaughter house there. After 20 years of hard work Iwao Kuraoka managed to find for himself a place in the business community. Later he was director of Kaigen Bank and of Kaigen Business Trust Co., apart from holding an important position among Japanese residents in Manchuria.
