Career
A graduate of the Imperial College of Engineering (Kobu Daigaku) in Tokyo, he worked as a telegraph engineer for the Japanese government. He left Japan in 1886 and traveled to New New York He was introduced to Charles Batchelor, an assistant of Thomas Edison.
Iwadare was hired to work in an Edison facility in Manhattan at Goerck Street.
Iwadare was transferred to Edison Machine Works in Schenetady, New York in January 1887. Iwadare returned to Japan, hoping to participate in building the electrical industry in Japan.
He first joined Osaka Dento (Osaka Electric Lamp Company) as an electrical engineer, and after eight years resigned from his post to start his own business as a general sales agent in Japan for General Electric and Western Electric companies. Their representative was Walter Tenney Carleton.
Iwadare accepted the proposal and a new firm was created in August, 1898.
In 1899, changes to treaties between Japan and Western countries went into effect. Iwadare was named Managing Director of what is now known as Nippon Electric Corporation Corporation. He became Chairman of the Board in 1926.