Yamanashi Prefectural Museum Audio Guide

Controlling Massive Wealth

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Controlling Massive Wealth. Logistics and Electric Industry Would Become the Leading Business.

Koshu-ya Chuemon made a success in silk trading at the end of the Edo period. Ippei Wakao managed the big business as the head of Koshu financial combine. They expanded the business with their positive energy and the ability to take actions, so they established the great power and led Japanese economy.
This area shows that their infrastructure business like electric and railroad enterprise has been succeeded to the present lifestyle of us. And also, you can find how important their business was in modernization of here in Yamanashi and Japan.