Suzuki graduated from Tokyo Imperial University and worked in the Japanese Home Ministry from 1933 to 1947, and then in the Ministry of Home Affairs, where he worked on the development of the Local Autonomy Law, public election laws and other postwar governance rules.

He served as Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary under Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi.

Azuma declined to run for a third term in 1967, following which Suzuki served in several other roles, including as chairman of the Osaka Expo '70 planning committee.

As governor, his most noted accomplishment was the development of the Odaiba area on Tokyo Bay.

Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara presided over his funeral services at Aoyama Cemetery.