Background
Yamada Eiichi was born in 1908 in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
山田 栄一
Yamada Eiichi was born in 1908 in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
In 1931 Yamada Eiichi entered Mitsui Life Insurance Company. Then he entered Citizen Watch Manufacturing Company (1937) became its director (1941), after name of that company was changed to Dai-Nippon (Great Japan) Watch Manufacturing Company served as its managing director and then became its president (1946). When the company was renamed Citizen Watch Manufacturing Company became its president, assuming additional posts of president of Citizen & Company, director of Heiwa Watch Manufacturing Company and chairman of East Japan Regional Branch of Japan Watchmakers' Association. For a time served as senior managing director of Japan Precision Apparatus Company (1938).