Japanese commercial companies and their activity in Egypt (1923-1941)

The Major Japanese commercial companies established branches in Egypt in the 1930s, including Nippon Menka, Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Kanegafushi, and Japan - Cotton Trading, where they worked to achieve a kind of commodity diversity in exchange. Commodities such as phosphates, Egyptian onions and salt appeared in the list of Egyptian exports to Japan, and they also succeeded in opening new commercial markets for Egyptian crops, such as those in Hong Kong, and paved the way for establishing industrial economic cooperation between Egypt and Japan to establish factories inside Egypt with joint funds. These companies with large capitals, which have their business and trade spread around the world, in addition to a number of other Japanese commercial companies with medium and small capitals that sought to do business inside Egypt through local commercial agents who deal with them through commission, and other companies that sent Trade representatives from its end to Egypt, and these companies continued in commercial work inside Egypt until 1941, when they were closed. One after the other as a result of the Second World War and its repercussions in Egypt