Background
Kosaku Shinoda was born in 1899, Sapporo, Japan.
Kosaku Shinoda was born in 1899, Sapporo, Japan.
Graduated from Waseda University (1927).
He entered the services of Asahi Shimbun (newspaper) and was first chief of the newspaper's branch in Yamagata and then in Chiba. Later resigned from the newspaper company to become a director of a pulp and forestry concern. Was parliamentary vice-minister of Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.