Kyokuyo Co., Ltd.

...However, corporate management accounts for just under 50% of the total value of fish catches in Japan, and the production scale of each management is significantly larger than that of fishing households or individual businesses. The five largest fishery companies, all listed on the First Section of the Stock Exchange, are Taiyo Fisheries (now Maruha), Nippon Suisan, Nichiro Fisheries (now Nichiro), Kyokuyo, and Hoko Suisan (Hosui is also listed on the First Section of the Stock Exchange, but is a subsidiary of Nippon Suisan). The first three of the five companies were founded at the end of the Meiji period and established a monopoly capital system by the end of the Taisho period. ...

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…しかし，会社経営体が日本全体の漁獲金額に占める比率は5割弱にも及び，経営体個々の生産規模は，漁家や個人企業体に比し著しく大きい。いわゆる水産会社のなかでもとくに規模の大きいのは，証券市場一部上場の大洋漁業(現，マルハ)，日本水産，日魯漁業(現，ニチロ)，極洋，宝幸水産の五大水産会社である(ホウスイも一部上場会社であるが，日本水産の子会社)。　5社のうち前3社は明治末期に生まれ，大正末期には独占資本体制を確立した。…

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