Background
Tsukada was born in 1886, in Nagoya, Aichi Perfecture, Japan.
實則 塚田
Tsukada was born in 1886, in Nagoya, Aichi Perfecture, Japan.
Sanenori Tsukada graduated from Osaka Higher Technical School (now Osaka University of Commerce).
In 1909, Tsukada entered Nagoya Gas Company and after it was re-organized and renamed Toho Gas Company in 1927, in the same year was appointed its director. Then recieved the position of the managing director in 1943 and un 1948, became its president. Additionaly, Tsukada held various additional posts including those of vice-chairman of Nagoya Chamber of Commerce & Industry, director of Gasu Kyokai (Gas Association) and Keidanren (Japan Business Federation) and president of Toho Rika Kogyo Kaisha (Toho Chemical Industry Co.) since 1951.