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Furukawa Ichibei. Furukawa Ichibei (古河 市兵衛, April 16, 1832 - April 5, 1903) was a Japanese businessman who founded one of the fifteen largest industrial conglomerates in Japan, specializing in electrical goods, chemicals and metals. He bought the Ashio copper mine from the Japanese government in 1877, which he later organized, with ...
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- 古河 市兵衛
- Japanese
The Furukawa Group's founder, Ichibei Furukawa, was born in Kyoto in 1832 and, showing a natural flair for business, became an executive of the Ono-gumi, a wealthy merchant house at that time. In 1877, he took over the operation of the Ashio Copper Mine. After overcoming a number of crises, he developed it into Japan's largest copper mine.
The 130 year history of the Furukawa Electric Group is a history of contributing to society. Furukawa Group founder Ichibei Furukawa promoted development in Japan based on a desire to "make Japan brighter", and with a broad perspective and high sense of ethics, he worked to achieve this great ideal. The Furukawa Electric Group inherits this ...
Furukawa Ichibei (1832–1903) acquired Ashio Copper Mine on 30 December 1876. Through investment, the discovery of new deposits, technological innovation, and labor reform, Furukawa transformed the mines into one of Japan’s most productive facilities. His company eventually produced between 24 and 52.2 percent of Japan’s copper annually ...
Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. (古河電気工業株式会社, Furukawa Denkikōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese electric and electronics equipment company. History [ edit ] The company traces its origins to Furukawa Ichibei who founded Nikko Copper Works, a copper-smelting facility at Yokohama in 1884, which became part of Furukuwa Kogyo.
- 2,050 (non-consolidated), 50,867 (consolidated) (as of March 31, 2022)
The Ashio Copper Mine (足尾銅山, Ashio Dōzan) was a copper mine located in the town of Ashio, Tochigi (now part of the city of Nikkō, Tochigi ), in the northern Kantō region of Japan. It was the site of Japan's first major pollution disaster in the 1880s and the scene of the 1907 miners' riots. [1] The pollution disaster led to the birth ...
Furukawa Electric Review, No. 51 2020 1 Yoshio Masutani* Ichibei Furukawa, a founder of Furukawa Electric Group, struggled with the development of copper mining business while revising the old tradition, despite of many difficulties in the process of Japan modernization. Around the same time, in the early Meiji era, the existence of
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