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Shozo Kawasaki 1878 founders opened a shipyard. Kawasaki Tsukiji, where fleet following the Western steel in Tokyo in the year 1886 the scope of business expansion until the establishment is a company, Kawasaki shipyard in Kobe.
Founder, Shozo Kawasaki Kawasaki's origin, then count back to 1876, when in 1882, Shozo Kawasaki established Kawasaki Tsukiji shipyard in Tokyo, after 18 years, then in 1896, it has developed into a company shipyard Kawasaki Ltd.
Shozo Kawasaki was born in Kagoshima City, a family of kimono merchants, and became a retail merchant. During the age of 17 in Nagasaki City, Japan, which is one of the cities that open contact with the West. He has started a business, transport ships in the city of Osaka at the age of 27, which crash when his cargo ship sank in a storm occurred. In the year 1869, he joined the company on trade of sugar from the city of Ryukyu (Okinawa City in the district is in prachuban), which was founded by the Samurai family in Kagoshima hotels 1893 has made research about ongoing Ryukyu Brown including ferry routes, by order of the Minister of the Ministry of the trainer?Agung in 1894 appointed as Deputy Chairman of the management of the transport company MailSteam-Powered. Hotels Japan and succeeded in opening the route to the Ryukyu and transporting sugar to the Japan Mainland. Benefit from an experienced marine accident many times in life do, Kawasaki was born feel the trust of Western shipbuilding, especially because those ships. There is ample space, stability and speed boats, and he went on to Japan, general interest in modern shipbuilding industry in April 1878 by Matsukata Masayoshi, the support of the Assistant Deputy Minister of finance, which comes from the same province, Kawasaki established Kawasaki Tsukiji shipyard by borrowing space from the Government in the Sumidagawa River bar, Tsukiji Minami-Iizaka-cho (now 7-chome, Chuo-ku, Tsukiji) in Tokyo, the major shipbuilding of 1896. Shipyard Kawasaki company limited is in the form of Matsukata Kojiro company appointed as Chairman of the new company's first people.
Matsukata Kojiro, first President In the year 1894 seven years after the founding of the company, Kawasaki shipbuilding the war begun and Sino-Japanese industry, shipbuilding in Japan, it was affected by the incident, which Kawasaki repair job with so many quick ship. Once aware of the limitations of management by the person making the decision in the Kawasaki company into public company immediately. After the war ended, came to the entrance of 60′s when there is no son aged enough to take, so Kawasaki chose Matsukata Kojiro, third son of the patron, his business name is Masayoshi Matsukata subsequent recipients.
Kojiro Matsukata was born at Amphoe Satsuma (Kagoshima City is currently in the district), in the year 1865, has become Japan's Prime Minister, secretarial. During his father's administration during the years 1891 and 1892 year in year 1896 appointed Matsukata to be the first President of the Kawasaki shipyard co., Ltd, and is in a position at 32 years until 1928, by expanding the business in the field of freight train, aircraft and maritime transport system for 8 hours.Impress your date in Japan first, including other methods. He makes the Kawasaki strenght and grow as a company leading the way in the country's leather industry, Japan Matsukata is well known as a collector of art, the National Museum of Western art, greenery in Tokyo have created. From the private collection of Matsukata, including the Tokyo National Museum ongoing store collections of Ukiyoe prints of passenger ship-cargo Iyomaru in the year 1897 shipyard Kawasaki ship.-Iyomaru (727 gross ton). The first boat. After it became a public company during the 10 years of management by the person during the year 1886 until 1899. new ships, including ships, steel beam, 80 6 vessels, such as ships, Tamamaru (size approx. 570 gross ton) steel ship, the first tie since has been based in Japan. In the year 1890 The material is shipbuilding steel is developed from steel. The beginning of the Kawasaki shipyard, so assume the default symbolism of modern shipbuilding industry of Japan.
To create a shipyard of the Nippon Yusen ship Mikawamaru 1902 dry Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK Line) access to the service garage is dry, which is the first vessel that was working in the repair garage, Shozo Kawasaki realized passion that preserving the company's demand to greatly increase. The can since the shipyard was built at Kawasaki Kobe city Hyogo district, he has a plan, build a garage dry maintenance area near the garage, the boat in 1892 to explore the area and began the year 1895 trial drilling, it happens. After a merger, the company ships Kawasaki, Kojiro Matsukata, it has to follow the plan.
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