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7C v • • c/f v-3 F--iem k! i / mmsm. .V. ilh *> Zhongguo S t Ingye sSi . *■. *. :♦*■• 4 * , «■,, ^ ^ * ■* • , tc ’ *$- Tt n V**•«': * Chinese Busifiess History* \rr. ?/*. Fall 2005, Volume 15, Number 2 ISSN 1090-834X The Role of Private Companies in the Expansion of Japan’s Interests in Manchuria in the 1920s: The Case of the Toa Kangyo Company (Toa kangyo kabushiki kaisha) by Yoshiki Enatsu Japanese Companies in Manchuria after the Russo- oku Company (Toyo takushoku kabushiki kaisha), the Japanese War Bank of Chosen (Chosen ginko), the Yokohama Specie nnhrough the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth, Japan ac- Bank (Yokohama shokin ginko) and others. These Japa X quired from Russia a lease of the southern tip of nese companies were expected to play a substantial role Liaodong Peninsula (Kanto-shu) and ownership of the in expanding Japan’s interests in Manchuria. Financed Russian-built South Manchurian Railway (Minami by these companies and banks, many Japanese business Manshu tetsudo or Mantetsu). Then, in concluding the groups and individuals were also engaged in commerce, Russo-Japanese Agreements in 1907, 1910, and 1912 mining, industry, agriculture, transportation and other and asserting its Twenty-One Demands on China during enterprises in Manchuria. the First World War, Japan began to extend its influence Although these business companies and individuals in southern Manchuria and eastern Inner Mongolia. were supposed to follow Japan’s national policy, namely Japan, however, did not have sovereignty there except the expansion of Japan’s interests in Manchuria, they for Kanto-shu and the lands belonging to Mantetsu. were engaged in business for their own financial gain.
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