Tokyo, Aug. 20.
According to investigations made by the Nippon Hypothtic Bank, the number of industrial companies during last year was 7,095, and the total capital of these companies amounted to ¥.9,521,606,000, which the paid up capital' was '¥.5,975,643,000. These figures, when compared with the preceding' year, show an increase by 79 in the number of companies and Y.280,- (000,000 in the paid-up capita The capital employed in the electric "industry heads the list with ¥.1,888,000,000, and then come' railways, coal mining, mineral mining and smeltering, and maru-facture of cotton yarn and spinning.—Toho.
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