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JAPAN BY THE JAPANESE

Number of Companies and Amount of Capital

(As Standing at the End of December of the Respective Years).

Year. Agricultural
Companies.
Industrial
Companies.
Commercial
Companies.
Transportation
Companies.
Banks. Railway
Companies.
Total.
Number of
Companies.
Paid-up
Capital.
Number of
Companies.
Paid-up
Capital.
Number of
Companies.
Paid-up
Capital.
Number of
Companies.
Paid-up
Capital.
Number of
Companies.
Paid-up
Capital.
Number of
Companies.
Paid-up
Capital.
Number of
Companies.
Paid-up
Capital.
Yen. Yen. Yen. Yen. Yen. Yen. Yen.
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894 118 1,188,203 1,778 144,589,762 1,998 20,014,874 178 16,586,881 863 101,409,881 32 165,973,398 2,967 249,762,999
1895 126 1,522,409 1,944 158,728,656 1,151 23,835,358 207 16,708,038 1,019 127,807,715 30 173,252,797 3,477 301,854,973
1896 117 1,666,160 1,367 189,900,900 1,501 26,584,764 276 23,112,786 1,321 167,271,488 57 190,103,974 4,639 398,640,072
1897 148 2,229,627 1,881 105,381,106 2,125 51,436,548 390 34,021,150 1,594 211,047,470 64 130,663,015 6,202 534,778,916
1898 166 2,336,720 2,164 122,066,653 2,457 45,920,241 472 41,351,456 1,875 257,447,002 64 155,881,965 7,198 625,004,037
1899 176 2,287,685 2,253 147,783,280 2,712 52,045,442 510 41,179,544 2,105 288,024,897 73 156,967,016 7,829 688,287,864

Note.—The statistics before the year 1893, when the Mercantile Law came into force, are neglected as being incomplete, and the above table begins from 1894.

The Companies include ordinary partnership, limited partnership, and joint stock companies, limited by shares.

The banks, besides the above three kinds of companies, include individual bankers who carry on banking business according to the Bank Law.