Background
Shibata Hitoshi was born in Miyazaki Prefecture, 1899.
Shibata Hitoshi was born in Miyazaki Prefecture, 1899.
Graduated from Agriculture Department of Kyoto University (1928).
Served as administrative official of Agriculture & Forestry Ministry, Consul at Saigon and Hanoi and chief of Food Section of Bukka-cho (Price Agency) and thereafter was appointed Vice-Governor (1947) and then Governor of Chiba Prefecture (since 1951).