Nisshin Kisen Kaisha

Japanese: 日清汽船会社 - にっしんきせんかいしゃ

A Japanese national shipping company that operated the China coastal routes. After the First Sino-Japanese War, in order to avoid fierce competition among Japanese shipping companies that had expanded into the Yangtze River route, the company was founded in March 1907 at the invitation of the government by merging and integrating two companies, Daito Kisen and Konan Kisen, with the Yangtze River route divisions of Osaka Shosen and Nippon Yusen. The new company inherited the routes of the four companies, was headquartered in Tokyo, and Ishiwata Kuninojo, a communications bureaucrat, was appointed as its first president. With capital of 8.1 million yen, it was the fourth largest company in the shipping industry after Nippon Yusen, Osaka Shosen, and Toyo Kisen.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

中国沿岸航路を経営した日本の海運国策会社。日清戦争後，揚子江航路に進出した日本の海運業同士の激しい競争を回避するため，政府の勧誘で大東汽船，湖南汽船の2社と大阪商船，日本郵船の揚子江航路部門を統合･合併して1907年3月創立された。新会社は4社の航路を継承し，本社を東京に置き，初代社長に逓信官僚石渡邦之丞が就任した。資本金は810万円であるが，海運業界では日本郵船，大阪商船，東洋汽船につぐ第4位の規模であった。

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