The Post War Years
07/09/2004
1945
At the end of the war Oki Electric had 28 production plants,
beginning with those in Shibaura and Shinagawa in Tokyo and
spreading into rural areas where evacuation work sites were set up
to avoid damage from wartime air raids. Including volunteers, the
company had roughly 22,700 employees.
The company undertook full-scale restructuring. All the board members resigned except director Ryoji Inoue and auditor Hikoshire Yasuda. Yuzo Yanai was elected President and Ryoji Inoue senior managing director.
1948
After drastic restructuring the
company concentrated production operations into 5 sites in the hope
of becoming much more streamlined. The workforce was also reduced
to 4,500 employee's, mainly by releasing the volunteer workers and
conscripts.
1949
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd (Oki
Electric) was established to replace the former Oki Electric Co.,
Ltd. and President Suteji Kanbe was assigned the task of leading
the new company.
