Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd. - Tokyo Gas

Japanese: 東京瓦斯[株] - とうきょうガス
Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd. - Tokyo Gas
A public utility company that supplies city gas mainly to the Kanto region. Following the transfer of the Tokyo Prefecture gas business in 1885, Shibusawa Eiichi and others founded the company as Tokyo Gas Company (reorganized as a joint-stock company in 1893) with capital of 270,000 yen. The city gas business in Tokyo began in 1874 as the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce's gas lamp business, and was transferred to Tokyo Prefecture the following year. Initially, the main demand was for lighting, but with the spread of electric lighting in the 1910s and the decline of gas lamps following the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923, the company began to develop demand for gas as fuel.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
関東地区を中心に都市ガスを供給する公益事業会社。1885年東京府ガス事業の払下げを受け,渋沢栄一らが発起人となって資本金27万円の東京瓦斯会社(1893年株式会社に改組)として創立された。東京での都市ガス事業は1874年に東京会議所のガス灯事業として始められ,翌年東京府に移管されていた。当初の需要の主流は灯用であったが,1910年代に電灯が進出したこと,また23年の関東大震災でガス灯が減ったことなどから,同社は燃料用需要の開拓を進めた。

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