Mori Group
The Mori group ( Japanese 森 コ ン ツ ェ ル ン , Mori kontserun , from German group ; English inter alia. Mori group , Mori conglomerate , Mori Group , Mori Concern or Mori Zaibatsu ) was a Zaibatsu , a Japanese financial and industrial conglomerate created by the entrepreneur Mori Nobuteru (1884–1941) was established and mainly comprised companies in the chemical industry, aluminum smelting and power generation. It was one of the so-called shinkō zaibatsu ( 新興 財閥 , “new” or “emerging zaibatsu”, often also called shinkō kontserun ), which emerged mainly from the rising chemical and heavy industry in the 1930s - against the background of the imperialist and the simultaneous economic expansion on the mainland.
In 1908 Mori founded the Bōsō Suisan KK ( 房 総 水産 株式会社 ), a company for iodine production, which later became the Nippon Yōdo KK ( 日本 沃 度 株式会社 ) and finally Nippon Denki Kōgyō KK ( 日本 電 気 工業 株式会社 ), which also emerged were active in aluminum smelting. Together with Ajinomoto co-founder Suzuki Saburōsuke , who was also his partner in other investments, Mori founded the Tōshin Denki KK ( 東信 電 気 株式会社 ) for the electricity needs of the potassium chlorate production. After the First World War, the second main precursor of Shōwa Denkō emerged , in 1922 as Mori Kōgyō ( 森 興業 ), in 1928 as Shōwa Hiryō KK ( 昭和 肥料 株式会社 ). The Mori group expanded after the invasion of Manchuria in 1931. In 1939 Shōwa Hiryō and Nippon Denki Kōgyō were merged to Shōwa Denkō.
When the Zaibatsu were broken up after the end of the Pacific War, the companies Shōwa Denkō and Nippon Yakin Kōgyō emerged from the Mori Group , the former Tōshin Denki now belongs to Tōkyō Denryoku . Mori was also one of the co-founders of the forerunner of the Chiba Kōgyō Daigaku . He was also active in politics as a member of the Shūgiin , the bourgeois lower house of the Reichstag ; some members of his family played or play a role in post-war politics, including his sons Mori Satoru (MP), Mori Kiyoshi (MP, Minister) and Mori Yoshihide (MP, Environment Minister), his sons-in-law Miki Takeo (MP, Prime Minister) and Tanaka Satoru (Governor of Mie) and his grandsons Mori Eisuke (MP, Minister of Justice) and Matsuzaki Tetsuhisa (MP).
Individual evidence
- ^ Barbara Molony: Technology and Investment: The Prewar Japanese Chemical Industry . Harvard University Asia Center, 1990, p. 275 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ^ Barbara Molony: Technology and Investment: The Prewar Japanese Chemical Industry . Harvard University Asia Center, 1990, p. 276 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Janis Mimura: Planning for Empire: Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State . Cornell University Press, 2011, pp. 23 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Hiromi Mizuno: Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan . Stanford University Press, 2008, pp. 51 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ kingendaikeizu.net: Mori family