期刊名称：Hitotsubashi Journal of Commerce and Management
印刷版ISSN：0018-2796
出版年度：2012
卷号：46
期号：1
页码：1-16
出版社：Hitotsubashi Academy, Hitotsubashi University
摘要：Tokyo Electric Lighting, Japanʼs first electric power company, was established in 1883. In the 129 years since then, Japanʼs electric power industry has contributed greatly to Japanʼs economic development in both the consumer and industrial sectors. In particular, in the period after the Russo-Japanese War (from the latter half of the 1900s to the early 1910s) and in the 1920s, the power industry played the role of Japanʼs leadingindustry, and then duringthe period from the mid-1950s through the early 1970s, formed the basis for Japanʼs high economic growth by providing a cheap and stable supply of electricity. Since the reorganization of the electric power businesses in 1951, Japanʼs electric power industry was carried forward under the system of nine (ten) privatized power companies 1 . However, the disaster of Tokyo Electric Power Companyʼs (TEPCOʼs) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant of March 11, 2011 set off a process of thorough reform of the electric power business, and at present, a fundamental review of the nine (ten)-company structure is underway. The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of the pre-World War II development process of Japanʼs electric power industry and elucidate the history of the dynamic industrial development which affected that process from 1883 to the state control of 1939 2
