Background
Soeta Shumpei was born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1896.
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Soeta Shumpei was born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1896.
He graduated from Nagoya Higher Commercial School (1918).
Soeta Shumpei served with Toyo Spinning Company and Toyota Spinning Company. Became factory superintendent of the newly established Chiio Spinning & Weaving Company (1930). He appointed director and chief of Labor Department (1935).
After the company was merged into Toyota Motorcar Company became its director (1943). Appointed director of Toyota Jido-shokki Seisakujo (Toyota Automatic Weaving Machinery Manufactory) (1944) and chief of Technical Department of the same company thereafter became managing director of Minsei Spinning Company (since 1950).