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[[File:Nyk biru.jpg|right|thumb|400px|The NYK building in [[Yokohama]], originally built in 1936, and today housing the NYK Maritime Museum]]
*''Japanese'': 日本郵船会社 ''(Nihon yûsen kaisha)''
Nihon Yûsen Kaisha (lit. "Japan Mail Shipping Company"), NYK, was the largest government-subsidized shipping company in Japan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It remains an extremely prominent company today, as does Osaka Shôsen Kaisha (OSK), long the country's second-largest government-subsidized shipping company.
[[Kawasaki Shozo|Kawasaki Shôzô]] became vice-president of NYK in [[1874]]. In [[1881]], the company built a shipyard at Tsukiji in [[Tokyo]].<ref>Plaque at Kawasaki's birthplace, in Kagoshima.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/15070841088/sizes/k/]</ref>
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==References==
*William Wray, Greg Kennedy, ed., ''The Merchant Marine in International Affairs, 1850-1950'' (London: Frank Cass, 2000), 59.
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*''Japanese'': 日本郵船会社 ''(Nihon yûsen kaisha)''
Nihon Yûsen Kaisha (lit. "Japan Mail Shipping Company"), NYK, was the largest government-subsidized shipping company in Japan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It remains an extremely prominent company today, as does Osaka Shôsen Kaisha (OSK), long the country's second-largest government-subsidized shipping company.
[[Kawasaki Shozo|Kawasaki Shôzô]] became vice-president of NYK in [[1874]]. In [[1881]], the company built a shipyard at Tsukiji in [[Tokyo]].<ref>Plaque at Kawasaki's birthplace, in Kagoshima.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/15070841088/sizes/k/]</ref>
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==References==
*William Wray, Greg Kennedy, ed., ''The Merchant Marine in International Affairs, 1850-1950'' (London: Frank Cass, 2000), 59.
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[[Category:Meiji Period]]
[[Category:Economics]]