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...impressive marble building remindful of No. 23 Wall St., the bland and open citadel of J. P. Morgan & Co. Also bland and open is No. 1, citadel of the Mitsui Gomel Kaisha...
There are richer holding companies than Mitsui Gomel Kaisha but in all the world there is no other enterprise at once so vast and so diverse. Its agencies in foreign lands outnumber the embassies and consulates of the Japanese Empire. Deposits with one of its subsidiaries, Mitsui Bank, exceed the annual tax revenues of all the cities of Japan. Another subsidiary, Mitsui Trading Co., handles one-fourth of all Japan's foreign trade. Under its house flag in normal times sails a chartered merchant fleet as large as the whole mercantile marine of France...
...another subsidiary warehouses one-fifth of everything warehoused in Japan, and still another dominates Japanese insurance. Japanese call Mitsui Gomel Kaisha a "business empire." Its prime minister for the last 18 years has been Baron Dr. Takuma...
Bonds of the Imperial Japanese Government, which had already dropped some 30 points, dropped ten more points last week to 61. Tokyo City bonds dropped over seven points. Bonds of Daido Denryoku Kabushiki Kaisha (Great Consolidated Electric Power Co. Ltd.) dropped over 13. The yen sank to a value of 35?, lowest level in history...
Japan's grappler was President Kenkichi Kagami of Nippon Yusen Kaisha, the Japanese Mail Steamship Co., largest, most luxurious operated by Asiatics. Bland, bespectacled, slightly plump, Mr. Kagami, an incessant smoker of U. S. cigarettes got his technical training in the Occident, sailed home to become an executive genius of Japan's No. 2 house of merchant princes, the Mitsubishi, which controls the N. Y. K. (No. 1 is the House of Mitsui...