The Mitsui family (三井家, Mitsui-ke) is one of the most powerful families of merchants and industrialists in Japan.
The Mitsui enterprise (present-day Mitsui Group) was established in 1673 when Mitsui Takatoshi (1622–1694), the son of merchant parents, established Echigoya, a dry goods department store in both Edo and Kyoto, which later became the Mitsukoshi department store chain. Meeting with great success, Takatoshi extended his services to moneylending and exchange.
In the late Edo period, the Mitsuis were the richest and most eminent family in Japan, their business being thoroughly encouraged by the shogunal government of the time. After the Meiji Restoration, the family switched allegiance to the Meiji government.
In 1909, a Mitsui controlled holding company took over the business, with Mitsui thus becoming a zaibatsu (business conglomerate) of more than 150 companies, and in modern times the group counts dozens of multinational companies in fields such as trade, banking, shipping and shipbuilding, construction, mining, oil and gas, insurance, chemicals and real estate development.
The Mitsuifamily (三井家, Mitsui-ke) is one of the most powerful families of merchants and industrialists in Japan. The Mitsui enterprise (present-day Mitsui...
Mitsui Group (三井グループ, Mitsui Gurūpu) is a Japanese corporate group and keiretsu that traces its roots to the zaibatsu groups that were dissolved after...
Mitsui Takatoshi (三井 高利, 1622 – May 29, 1694) was the founder of the Mitsuifamily of merchants and industrialists that later emerged as the Mitsui Group...
War II. Iwasaki family (岩崎家) – founder of Mitsubishi; descended from Takeda clan from Seiwa Genji Mitsuifamily (三井家) – founder of Mitsui; descended from...
studied law at the present-day University of Tokyo. Matsushita worked for Mitsui Bank before joining Panasonic. In April 1940, he married Sachiko Matsushita...
Mitsuifamily. She remained in Tokyo throughout World War II and the fire-bombing of March 9, 1945, during which she was sheltered with other family members...
The Mitsui Memorial Museum (三井記念美術館, Mitsui Kinen Bijutsukan) is an art museum in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district. It is located within the Mitsui Main Building...
Masumi Mitsui, MM (7 October 1887 – 22 April 1987), was a Japanese-born Canadian veteran of World War I who had his property confiscated and was detained...
Baron Takaharu Mitsui (三井 高陽, Mitsui Takaharu, July 10, 1900 – May 19, 1983) of Japan, is considered one of the most eminent, if not the most celebrated...
during the Edo period: its early development is largely credited to the Mitsuifamily, who based their wholesaling business in Nihonbashi and developed Japan's...
businessperson who was deeply involved in founding Mitsui Bank and Mitsui & Co., the head of branch family of Mitsuifamily and the founder of specialist trading company...
Hirooka Asako (広岡 浅子, née Mitsui Asako, 18 October 1849 — 14 January 1919) was a Japanese businesswoman, banker, college founder and late in life, a Christian...
The Sumitomo Mitsui Construction Company, Ltd. (三井住友建設株式会社, Sumitomo Mitsui Kensetsu kabushiki gaisha, SMCC) is a Japanese general construction company...
of founding, Sumitomo, Mitsui, Mitsubishi, and Yasuda were the most significant zaibatsu groups. Two of them, Sumitomo and Mitsui, had roots in the Edo...
Miike coal mine (三池炭鉱, Miike Tankō), also known as the Mitsui Miike Coal Mine (三井三池炭鉱, Mitsui Miike Tankō), was the largest coal mine in Japan, located...
Mitsui Shopping Park LaLaport Taichung is an shopping mall in East District, Taichung, Taiwan. It is the first LaLaport shopping mall to be developed in...
was a Japanese businessperson. He was the head of a branch of the Mitsuifamily, which served for the industrial and cultural development of Kyoto as...
who had spent 40 years in Japan as a governess in the service of the Mitsuifamily both prior to World War II and throughout the war years. Prior to her...
million tons, six times more than Mitsubishi Heavy and seven times more than Mitsui Engineering. Its revenue in that year totaled 373.4 billion yen ($3.43 billion)...
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