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	Mitsubishi Electric - About Mitsubishi
		Yataro Iwasaki was from the city of Kochi on the island of Shikoku, which was the home of the powerful Tosa clan.
		Yataro chose a corporate emblem that combined the three oak leaves of the Tosa crest and the three stacked diamonds of his family crest.
		Yataro Iwasaki, the founder of the old Mitsubishi organization, chose the three-diamond mark as the emblem for his company.
	www.bdt.co.nz /mitsubishi/about.asp (1074 words)

	Yataro Iwasaki -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Yataro Iwasaki is the founder of the international (A group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization) conglomerate Mitsubishi Group.
		Yataro actively participated in socializing with political activists in Tokyo, many of whom later became the important government officials.
		Now, Iwasaki family has lost control of Mitsubishi Group, but the legend of Iwasaki family is a still a common case in the Entrepreneurial chapter of most business school textbooks.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/y/ya/yataro_iwasaki.htm (254 words)

	Mitsubishi Electric - About Us - Canada
		That emblem was a combination of the Iwasaki family crest and the oak-leaf crest of the Yamanouchi family, leaders of the Tosa clan, which controlled the part of Shikoku where Yataro was born.
		Yataro, however, was not destined to lead the Mitsubishi organization in its new phase of growth.
		Hisaya Iwasaki was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, in the United States.
	www.mitsubishielectric.ca /corporate/our_history.html (1582 words)

	WALKER BROTHERS>
		Iwasaki moved his head office to Tokyo in April, a period that coincides exactly with government preparations for the expedition.
		For Iwasaki Yataro, meanwhile, it was a windfall because the Japanese government gave the company the ten imported ships as a reward after the settlement of the conflict.
		Distress over this situation may have been too much for Iwasaki Yataro, who died of stomach cancer on February 7, 1885 at the age of fifty and left the fate of Mitsubishi to his younger brother Yanosuke.
	www.uwosh.edu /home_pages/faculty_staff/earns/walker.html (6752 words)

	mitsubishi.com -About Mitsubishi - Stories of Some Prominent Figures -
		Yanosuke Iwasaki took over leadership of Mitsubishi on the death of his elder brother, Yataro.
		Where Yataro was hotheaded and emotional, always accepting a challenge, Yanosuke was mild, collected, and accommodating.
		Yataro influenced his brother's education by enrolling him in a Tosa clan school, where the younger Iwasaki proved an astute student.
	www.mitsubishi.com /e/history/series/yanosuke/index.html (501 words)

	mitsubishi.com - About Mitsubishi - Mitsubishi Companies -
		The companies trace their origin to a shipping company started in 1870 by a man named Yataro Iwasaki.
		Yanosuke Iwasaki, the second president and his son, Koyata Iwasaki, the forth president together established the Seikado Bunko Art Museum, a priceless collection of Japanese and Chinese books and scrolls.
		And Hisaya Iwasaki, the third president established the Toyo Bunko, Japan's oldest library and research institution devoted exclusively to Asian Studies.
	www.mitsubishi.com /e/group/about.html (629 words)

	Ripples in Time [Mitsubishi Group Founder Yataro Iwasaki's House ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Yataro Iwasaki (1835-1885) was the president of Yubin Kisen Mitsubishi Kaisha (Mitsubishi Mail Steamship Company).
		However, Yataro did not see the merger because he died of cancer when he was 50, eight months before the merger.
		On January 9, 1835, Yataro was born in Aki City, Tosa District (the current Kochi Prefecture), in Japan.
	www.nykline.co.jp /english/seascope/200702/index.htm (324 words)

	Gage Woodcock's journal
		Iwasaki Yataro is a Japanese businessman who owns Mitsubishi which is "well on the way to becoming one of the great conglomerates of modern
		Yataro was looking out for the well-being of his company and wanted to make sure that his profits stayed in tact.
		As a capitalist, Yataro doesn't really seem to be looking out for his employees, it seems as though he is acting in a sole effort to maintain his profits.
	pbj.ctlt.wsu.edu /gwoodcock (2559 words)

	Mitsubishi Corporation -- Company History
		Its founder, Yataro Iwasaki, was born in 1834, a peasant who purchased samurai status with the help of relatives.
		Iwasaki reminded the government that the Russians had just completed a naval base at Vladivostok, while Japan's major shipyard at Nagasaki was barely able to handle minor repairs.
		Iwasaki's associates, all of whom were samurai, were unable to assert themselves as independent managers until after Iwasaki died.
	www.fundinguniverse.com /company-histories/Mitsubishi-Corporation-Company-History.html (2904 words)

	Mitsubishi Refrigerator - About Mitsubishi
		Yataro made a public display of patriotism in 1874, providing ships to carry Japanese troops to Taiwan.
		A perennial subject for speculation is why Yataro chose not to put his own family name on his new company.
		Whatever Yataro's reason for refraining from using the Iwasaki name, it surely wasn't modesty.
	www.bdt.co.nz /refrigerator/about.asp (1074 words)

	MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION -- Company History
		The year before, Iwasaki had made a second move into mining with the and yen;10,000 purchase of the Yoshioka copper mine, whose unusually high profits were made possible by its use of prison laborers.
		This revolution in the Mitsubishi profit structure caused Iwasaki to revise his earlier dream of building a great international shipping line; the shipping business was too volatile to suit his taste, and it was clearly easier to make money in mining and shipbuilding.
		Iwasaki, therefore, called a halt to the shipping price war, agreeing to form a joint venture, to be called the NYK, with his antagonists.
	www.fundinguniverse.com /company-histories/MITSUBISHI-MATERIALS-CORPORATION-Company-History.html (1926 words)

	nowhere somehow: iwasaki yataro -sawada miki - tottori (Mitsubishi Link) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		On August 1995, fifty years after the end of the war, a reunion of former orphans of the Elizabeth Sander's Home was held on Uradome Beach in Iwamicho.
		She was the granddaughter of Iwasaki Yataro, who founded the Mitsubishi conglomerate.
		Her husband, Sawada Renzou, was the first ambassador to the U.N. This institute was set up to care for the numerous out of wedlock babies born between American GIs and Japanese women right after World War II.
	mirroirhome.blogspot.com /2005/10/iwasaki-yataro-sawada-miki-tottori.html (187 words)

	THE ZAIBATSU OF JAPAN
		Mitsubishi (Three Diamonds) was founded by Iwasaki Yataro of what is now Kochi Prefecture but was at the time Tosa domain, a samarai-controlled region.
		Iwasaki was selected to serve in the bureaucracy and later headed the Nagasalo office of the financial agency of the domain.
		Iwasaki took over the managment of the privatized domain enterprises and assumed responsibility for the debts of the Tosa domain.
	www2.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/zaibatsu.htm (2322 words)

	kyle_snedeker's journal
		Iwasaki Yataro was a business owner in the 1870’s whom looked to better his business.
		See Iwasaki was the owner of Mitsubishi and although his company once was large and powerful, it failed to grow with competing companies and was losing out on customers.
		See Iwasaki’s thinking as more industrialist because of the end result he is trying to achieve.
	pbj.ctlt.wsu.edu /kyle_snedeker (2561 words)

	Mitsubishi Electric - History
		The well-known "three-diamond" trademark and the name "Mitsubishi" (Mitsu = 3, Bishi = stone/diamond) are actually a combination of family crests: the triangular leaves of the water chestnut of the Iwasaki family and the three oak leaves of the Yamauchi family.
		Around 1870, Yataro Iwasaki, the founder of the company, leased three steamships and therewith founded a transport company.
		The company's second president, Yanosuke Iwasaki, changed the corporate name from Mitsubishi Mail Steamship Company to Mitsubishi Company, and devoted himself to the organization's reconstruction, concentrating on its two new businesses.
	www.mitsubishi-evs.de /en/unternehmen_portraet.asp (547 words)

	www.IN2MITSI.co.nz :: Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		To get a start Iwasaki took on the debts of his native island of Shikoku in order to secure three steamships, some sailing boats and trading rights to sell wood, silk, tea and coal.
		By late 1875 Iwasaki had almost 40 ships carrying the Mitsubishi flag and had changed the business name to Mitsubishi Mail Steamship Co. Iwasaki was now the most powerful shipping magnate in Japan.
		In 1917, because of Koyata Iwasaki’s entrepreneurial vision, Mitsubishi produced its first motor car, the Type A. Built in the company’s shipyard in Kobe, the Type A was based on a contemporary four cylinder Fiat.
	www.in2mitsi.co.nz /portal.php?page=5 (651 words)

	Mitsubishi Electric
		This shipyard in 1898 build the largest ship ever build to date in any Asian country and with that right away made Japan an important nation in the industrial world.
		n 1890 the then president, Yanosuke Iwasaki bought some 35 hectares of "worthless swampland" close to the imperial palace from the Japanese Government, which at that moment needed a financial injection, paying the equivalent of about 1 billion dollar for it.
		The last president was Koyata Iwasaki, who died in 1945.
	www.morse.pt /cctv/mitsubishi/historial.html (593 words)

	Decades before mission is done \| Business \| The Australian
		During the Meiji Restoration in 1868, the land between the Imperial Palace's eastern moat and what is now Tokyo Station was occupied by estates and houses of fudai daimyo, feudal lords who were vassals of the last shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu.
		The daimyo agreed to being abolished four years after the overthrow of the shogunate, and new men rose, including Yataro and Yanosuke Iwasaki, descendants of a lordless samurai, the lowest level to which a warrior could sink.
		Yataro Iwasaki founded the great Mitsubishi zaibatsu (a powerful family-controlled commercial combine) and upon his death in 1885, his brother became president.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,20943027-643,00.html (1221 words)

	.:: Mitsubishi Motors History ::.
		In the early 1870s, as Japan emerged from over 300 years of feudal isolation, a young entrepreneur, Yataro Iwasaki, formed a small shipping company named the Tsukumo Shokai.
		The entrepreneurship and strong social commitment of the Iwasaki family helped to establish the deep rooted pioneering spirit and social consciousness throughout the Mitsubishi companies, one that is in strong evidence to this day.
		The first two decades of Mitsubishi's history as a vehicle manufacturer were characterized by the intense dedication to create new innovations in what was then a budding industry in Japan.
	www.mitsubishi-motors.co.za /featuresites/mm_history/Pioneers.asp (418 words)

	Japanese Gardens in Tokyo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In the Meiji Era, Iwasaki Family owned the land and built Fukagawa Shinbokuen garden for eminent guests and his employees.
		Miniature mountains and islands are artistically arranged with a pond.
		In 1895, the European-style house was built by the British architect Josiah Conder for Hisaya Iwasaki, son of Yataro Iwasaki who was the founder of the former Mitsubishi financial group.
	www.geocities.com /takabo20/gardenE/gardenE.html (331 words)

	Mitsubishi TV Sets - Japanese Televisions Engineered in the US
		Mitsubishi traces its beginning to Yataro Iwasaki who started a shipping company with three leased steamships in 1870.
		The merger caused Iwasaki to lose control over Mitsubishi shipping operations, but he had been diversifying into other industries including copper and coal mining, ship construction, financial exchange, and warehousing, all of which formed the basis of the Mitsubishi organization we know today.
		Yataro Iwasaki died in 1885 at the age of 50, and was succeeded by his younger brother Yanosuke Iwasaki, who continued to diversify Mitsubishi's interests and dropped "Mail Shipping" from the company's name.
	www.plasma-and-flat-screen-tv.com /mitsubishi-tv.php (614 words)

	Kochi City Online Guide
		The eldest son of a farmer, Iwasaki was born in Aki City in 1835.
		To say that he was successful is an understatement: by 1877, Mitsubishi Shokai owned more than 80% of all the ships in Japan.
		From this company Iwasaki established the Mitsubishi financial group which was to become one of the most powerful economic ventures in the world.
	www.city.kochi.kochi.jp /info/english/vis-004-04.htm (1496 words)

	Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America History
		Yataro Iwasaki was an ambitious young man who established the first Mitsubishi Company — a shipping firm — in 1870.
		Yataro Iwasaki, founder of the first Mitsubishi company, created the famous three-diamond mark by combining two images.
		He blended the three-stacked diamonds of his own family crest with the triple oak leaf crest of the Tosa clan, his first employer.
	www.meaa-mea.com /aboutus/history.asp (233 words)

	The Famous Three (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The actual reason for choosing the three-diamond emblem is unknown; however, it is known that the original founder of the organization, Yataro Iwasaki, picked this emblem as representative of his first employer's three-leaf crest (Tosa Clan) and also representative of the three rhombi in his family crest.
		Yataro Iwasaki relayed his first employment in the creation of his company.
		Also, he combined aspects of his family unit in the utilization of his family crest in the emblem design.
	www.bridgewater.edu /~dhuffman/soc306/sp03grp04/famous_three.htm (214 words)

	Mitsubishi Electric
		Around 1870, Yataro Iwasaki, the founder of the company, leased three steamships and therewith founded a transport company.
		In the following years the company steadily expanded to a fleet of more than 30 ships, and Mitsubishi established a firm base in the modern shipping industry.
		Further presidents of the Iwasaki family followed the example of their predecessors and restructured the Mitsubishi organization, setting up divisions in Metal Mining, Coal Mining, Shipbuilding and Engineering, Banking, Trading and Estate.
	www.mitsubishielectric.de /english/about/sub_geschichte_content.html (543 words)

	Mitsubishi Motors Europe - Corporate
		That was when a young Japanese entrepreneur, Yataro Iwasaki, who had been working for his feudal lords, the Tosa Clan, decided to strike out on his own and begin a small shipping company, called Tsukumo Shokai.
		To develop a logo for the company, Iwasaki took his own family crest, which showed three stacked diamonds, and the crest of the Tosa Clan, which showed three oak leaves joined at the stem.
		In 1875, Iwasaki decided to rename the company after the logo: Three Diamonds, or in Japanese, Mitsubishi.
	www.mitsubishi-motors-euro.com /corporate/history (332 words)

	About Mitsubishi Chemical America, Inc. - Chemicals, Cars or What? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Many, however, retained the name Mitsubishi which can be traced back to a modest steamship company founded by Yataro Iwasaki back in 1870.
		Today, a diverse group of Mitsubishi companies are well known throughout the world for products which include cars, computers, steel products, electronics, paper, and plastics.
		Well, in the beginning young Yataro Iwasaki needed a distinctive name for his fledgling fleet of obsolete steamships.
	www.mitsubishichemical.com /ChemicalsCars.html (351 words)

	World of Mitsubishi International GmbH
		Yataro Iwasaki, son of a Samurai, established the first Mitsubishi company in 1870 when he began a business operation with three leased steamers which expanded to a significant shipping firm within a few years.
		During Yataro's time Mitsubishi also invested in coal mining and wharfs.
		This diversification was continued later on by Yataro's descendants who, by 1940, headed an industrial combine that included banks, real estate, heavy industry, chemicals, oil refining and more.
	www.mig.de /worldof/body_worldof.html (302 words)

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