Background
Kozo Watanabe was born in 1895 in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
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Kozo Watanabe
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Education
Kozo Watanabe graduated from Yamaguchi Higher Commercial School in 1917.
Career
Kozo Watanabe entered Iwai Sangyo Kaisha (Iwai Industrial Company) and served at its Kobe Branch and then at New York Branch (1926-1937). Upon returning home became private secretary to manager of Tokyo Branch (1937). He appointed vice-manager of Tokyo Branch (1938), general manager of French Indo-China and Thailand Areas (1942) and then director (1944). He became managing director (1944), and senior managing director, and, since 1953, president of Tokuyama Tetsuban (Iron Plate) Manufacturing Company.
