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Establishment of Nippon Electric Limited Partnership

When
31 August 1898
Where
Japan
Part of
NEC organized as first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital

Kunihiko Iwadare and Takeshiro Maeda established Nippon Electric Limited Partnership on 31 August 1898, using facilities bought from Miyoshi Electrical Manufacturing Company.

The partnership was formed by Iwadare and Maeda, who utilized facilities purchased from Miyoshi Electrical Manufacturing Company. Western Electric, represented by Walter Tenney Carleton, had an interest in the Japanese phone market. It was agreed that the partnership would be reorganized as a joint-stock company when the treaty would allow it.

Sources

  1. NEC Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-15

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