Background
Kyiitaro Oda was born in 1866.
Kyiitaro Oda was born in 1866.
Kyiitaro Oda graduated from the Nagasaki Normal School.
Kyiitaro Oda became a primary schoolteacher, worked at the Japanese legation in Korea and the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun. Joined the engineering department of the Mitsui Company (1896) and later the Mitsukoshi Department Store. In 1927, he became its managing director. He was concurrently board chairman of the Niko Company and a director of the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce.