Okura Civil Engineering - Okura Doboku

Japanese: 大倉土木 - おおくらどぼく

...A zaibatsu (commercial conglomerate) founded by political businessman Kihachiro Okura in one generation. Taking advantage of the upheaval of the Meiji Restoration and the end of the Edo period, he rose to prominence through firearms sales, and in the Meiji period, he expanded his business to include political business activities such as supplying military supplies and trade. Using the capital he accumulated, he established the Okura Gumi Partnership (established in 1893) as a holding company, and during World War I, a conglomerate was formed with three direct descendants of Okura Shoji, Okura Kogyo, and Okura Doboku as its core businesses. As a powerful figure in the financial world, he was involved in the establishment of many companies and invested in them, so by the early Showa period, the number of companies in which he invested had risen to over 100, and although it was not as large as the large general conglomerates (Mitsui and Mitsubishi), it had developed into a conglomerate with second-class capital. ...

From Taisei Corporation

…In 1887, Eiichi Shibusawa and Denzaburo Fujita established Japan's first incorporated construction company, Nippon Doboku Kaisha, Ltd., which took over the civil engineering and construction business of Okuragumi Shokai. In 1893, Kihachiro Okura took over the business again and renamed it Okura Doboku Kaisha. In 1911, it was merged with Okuragumi Co., Ltd. (Okuragumi Shokai was reorganized in 1893) to become Okuragumi Civil Engineering Co., Ltd., and in 1921, it became independent as Okuradoboku Kaisha, and was later renamed Nippon Doboku Kaisha and Okura Doboku Kaisha. …

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Japanese:

…政商大倉喜八郎が一代で創設した財閥。幕末･維新の動乱に乗じて銃砲販売で台頭した彼は，明治期に軍需物資用達などの政商活動や貿易活動を中心に事業を拡大したが，そこで蓄積した資本を基礎に，合名会社大倉組(1893設立)を持株会社とし，大倉商事，大倉鉱業，大倉土木の直系3社を事業の中核とするコンツェルン機構が第1次世界大戦期に形成された。また彼は財界の有力者として多数の会社の設立に関与し，出資していたため，昭和初期には投資先会社数が100社以上にのぼり，巨大総合財閥(三井，三菱)には及ばないものの，第二級の資本規模を有する財閥に発展した。…

【大成建設[株]】より

…87年渋沢栄一，藤田伝三郎が日本最初の法人建設企業，有限責任日本土木会社を設立し，大倉組商会の土木建築業務を継承した。93年大倉喜八郎が再びその業務を継承して大倉土木組と改称。1911年合名会社大倉組(大倉組商会が1893年に改組)に合併され(株)大倉組土木部となり，17年(株)大倉土木組として独立，以後日本土木(株)，大倉土木(株)と改称した。…

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