• An early Marubeni Corp. store in Osaka as seen in 1872. Marubeni and Itochu were founded as the same company before World War II, but were broken into two separate companies after the war. | MARUBENI CORP.
    An early Marubeni Corp. store in Osaka as seen in 1872. Marubeni and Itochu were founded as the same company before World War II, but were broken into two separate companies after the war. | MARUBENI CORP.
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This is the fourth part of a new series of reports written by industry specialists. The first 12 articles are about Japanese general trading companies, or sōgō shōsha.

To understand better the businesses the sōgō shōsha are involved in today, a look should be taken at how the sōgō shōsha developed over time.

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