23 
Kaisha purchased this company, and took over the immediate con- 
trol of its business. Unceasing energy was directed towards the 
development of the Company and many improvements made; the 
capital increased, and additional warehouses built during the ensuing 
years. In 1918, the Company’s name was altered to THE MITSU- 
BISHI SOKO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (THE MITSUBISHI 
WAREHOUSE CO., LTD.), and the capital again increased to 
Yen 10,000,000. 
The Company not only operates business as ‘Warehousemen 
and Bonded-Warehousemen, but as Consignment-Salesmen, ‘Wharf- 
ingers, Stevedores, Landing, Shipping and Forwarding Agents and 
Custom-Brokers. The total area of the sites of the Company now 
in use is about 150 acres. The sheds and warehouses (with a few 
exceptions) are built of brick or stone with iron frames, or of rein- 
forced concrete. They are furnished with automatic fire doors, 
hydrants, automatic fire extinguishers and other equipments for the 
safe-guarding of the goods stored therein. Along the water-frontage 
owned by the Company, there are piers and wharfs with adequate 
crane equipments erected thereon. = The piers and wharfs are con- 
nected with the sheds and warehouses, and with the Imperial Govern 
ment Railways, by means of private railways of the Company which 
aggregate 15 miles in length. Small steam-launches, fughoats, 
lighters and sampans, of a total tonnage of 50,000 tons, are used: in 
the harbours of Kobe, Osaka, Yokohama and Moji, for the transpors 
tation of goods and communication between land and sea. 
The Head Office of the Company is situated at No. 1, Yaesucho, 
Ttchome, Kojimachi-ku, "Tokyo, with branches at Tokyo, Osaka, 
Kobe, Yokohama and Moji. At Kobe where the imports and exports 
surpass in quantity and value those of any other port of Japan, the