Iwasaki's fourth daughter, Masako, married Baron Kijūrō Shidehara, the first Prime Minister of Japan after World War II
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Iwasaki Yatarō
Iwasaki Yatarō was a Japanese industrialist and financier known as the founder of Mitsubishi, one of Japan's largest conglomerates.
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business · Japanese industrialist (1835–1885) · entrepreneur · factory owner · also Iwasaki Yatarō, Iwasaki Yataro, Iwasaki Yatarou, Yatarō
Born 9 January 1835 · Died 7 February 1885 · Q380105
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1885· 2 entries
Died 1885-02-07.
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A merger of Mitsubishi shipping activities with competitor Kyodo Unyu Kaisha (founded 1882) led to the adoption of the company's name Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha, or 'NYK' in short, which still exists and is one of the
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1884· 1 entry
Iwasaki took a lease on the Nagasaki Shipyard, which allowed the company to undertake shipbuilding on a large scale and renamed it the Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works, which are now part of its Mitsubishi Heavy Indus
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1873· 1 entry
The company changed its name to Mitsubishi, a compound of mitsu ("three") and hishi (literally, "water caltrop", often used in Japanese to denote a rhombus or diamond)
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1868· 1 entry
Which overthrew the ruling Tokugawa Shogunate, abolishing the feudal system in Japan and forcing the disbandment of the shogunate's business interests
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1835· 1 entry
Born 1835-01-09.
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