International Oil Company

Japanese: インターナショナル石油会社 - いんたーなしょなるせきゆかいしゃ
International Oil Company

...After that, small oil companies were concentrated in Nippon Oil and Hoden Oil (established in Niigata Prefecture in 1892), and in 1921 the two companies merged to form Nippon Oil. Meanwhile, foreign-owned International Oil Company, a subsidiary of Standard Oil, and Rising Sun Oil, a subsidiary of Samuel & Co. (later Shell), were established in 1900, and each established a refinery to extract and refine Japanese oil. However, from the end of the Taisho period to the beginning of the Showa period, the discovery of the large oil fields in California and the fall of the foreign exchange rate (pound) led to a significant inflow of foreign crude oil, and Nippon Oil switched to a focus on refining imported oil, while import oil refining companies such as Kokura Oil and Mitsubishi Oil were established. ...

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "International Oil Company" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…その後,零細な石油企業は日本石油と宝田(ほうでん)石油(1892年新潟県に設立)に集中され,1921年に両社が合併して日本石油となった。一方,外資系として1900年にスタンダード・オイルの子会社のインターナショナル石油会社とサミュエル商会(のちのシェル)の子会社のライジングサン石油が設立され,それぞれ日本の石油を採掘・精製するための製油所を新設した。しかし大正末年から昭和初年にかけて,カリフォルニア大油田の発見や外国為替(ポンド)安の影響で,外国原油の流入が著しくなり,日本石油が輸入石油精製中心主義に転換したのと並び,小倉石油,三菱石油などの輸入石油精製会社が設立された。…

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