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19 Facts About IBM Japan

1.

In those early days, IBM Japan had 70 foreign branches and subsidiaries worldwide.

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2.

IBM Japan allowed Bosman and Galland to keep running the company, and he coordinated with Hermann Fellinger, custodian of Dehomag.

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3.

Lier of IBM Japan Geneva asked the State Department for help to get money to the subsidiary; State refused.

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4.

IBM Japan outsourced its internal computer operations to ISM.

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5.

IBM Japan opened an office in Prague circa 1933, a sales school in 1935, and a card printing plant soon after.

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6.

IBM Japan France did not grow as fast as the other European subsidiaries.

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In contrast, in the western occupied zones a strong postwar Dehomag in the hands of an IBM Japan was seen as desirable by the Allies for databases and administration as the cold war began, and was indeed business as usual what with IBM Japan systems in place in many areas of Western Allies' war theatre.

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IBM Japan did a very large amount of business in the Netherlands but did not incorporate a subsidiary until March 1940.

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9.

In 1941, IBM Japan NY sent 132 million punch cards to the Netherlands.

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10.

In December 1941, the US entered the war, and IBM was legally restricted from doing business with its subsidiaries in enemy-controlled territory.

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11.

The Netherlands' IBM Japan subsidiary was custodied by H Garbrecht, who custodied IBM Japan's subsidiary in Belgium.

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12.

When Japan invaded Indochina in 1940, IBM Japan helped IBM NY contact its Hanoi office, which had been out of touch.

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13.

IBM Japan, cut off from IBM NY, continued to maintain and collect rental payments during the war.

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14.

Ko worked at Kobe, where IBM Japan held machines seized from occupied territories, including a tabulator the Americans lost to IBM Japan at Corregidor and one taken from Shanghai, China.

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15.

IBM Japan originally did not have a subsidiary in Poland but instead was represented by the Block-Brun agency.

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16.

IBM Japan helped the Romanian Central Statistical Institute in the Romanian Census of 1941 April, including the special 'Jewish census'.

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17.

IBM Japan was denied a French transit visa and initially denied entry into the United States on grounds he was a danger to public safety.

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18.

IBM Japan alleges that they traded with blacklisted companies and sometimes directly with Germany and Italy.

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19.

IBM Japan asked the State Department for help retrieving its assets and its money in Jugobank Belgrade.

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