The company had its head office in Tokyo hut the operating head¬ 
quarters for ^Ichiro and its affiliates was at Hakodate. Outfitting 
and ship repair were carried on at this Hokkaido port. 
Hayashikane and Conrpany (Eayashikane Shoten K, K. ) This was a 
family company which had operated in fisheries for more than 100 years, 
hut was reorganized into a large joint stock company, capitalized at 
15 million yen in 1924. In 1939 it and its subsidiary corporations owned 
580 fishing boats with a tonnage of 70,000 gross tons and engaged in 
distribution of marine products and fishing gear and equipment. 
The chief subsidiary was the Taikyo Whaling Company which operated 
in the Antarctic. The head office of Hayashikane was located in Shimono- 
seki with main branches at Tokyo, Aomori and Nagasaki. 
Mitsubishi Trading Company (Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha) was the 
dominant firm in the distribution of marine products. In 1938 it 
handled the marketing of 70 percent of the canned salmon and 65 percent 
of the canned crab; it was the exclusive distributor of Nichiro salmon and 
crab and Nippon Suisan crab. In addition, it handled canned tuna, sardine 
and mackerel, fertilizer and fish oils (including whale oil). 
Associations 
Pishing, processing and marketing groups, whether companies or 
societies were coordinated in one or more of various nationwide associ¬ 
ations. Many of these associations were government sponsored and through 
them the government exercised control. 
Three of the nationwide associations were the Imperial Pishery 
Society (Teikoku Suisan-kai), the Fisheries Society of Japan (Dai Nippon 
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