Toshiba

Toshiba Corporation (東芝, Tōshiba) is a high technology electrical and electronics manufacturing firm, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is the 7th largest integrated manufacturer of electric and electronic equipment in the world.

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In financial year 2000-01 the company generated sales of ? 5,951,357 million and net income of ? 96,168 million. The company employs 188,042 people (2001).

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Toshiba was founded by the merging of two companies in 1939.

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The first company, Tanaka Seizosho (Tanaka Engineering Works), was Japan's first manufacturer of telegraph equipment and was established by Hisashige Tanaka in 1875. In 1904, the company name was changed to Shibaura Seisakusho (Shibaura Engineering Works). Through the first part of the 20th century, Shibaura Engineering Works became a major manufacturer of heavy electrical machinery as Japan, modernized during the Meiji Era, became a world industrial power.

Japan: For other uses, see Japan (disambiguation)....

Hisashige Tanaka: Hisashige Tanaka (September 18, 1799 – November 7, 1881) lived during the Edo period of Japan's history. He was born in Kurume, Japan, as a child of a tortoise-shell craftsman....

1875: 1875 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar)....