2016 Volume 51 Issue 1 Pages 3-28
In the field of modern Japanese electric industry, there are many publications on activity of top management of company, such as Yasuzaemon MATUNAGA. On the other hand, research of middle management who supported management activity of top management is not published.
So this paper examines the activity of Koukichi MATUOKA, middle manager of the Toho Electric Power Co. and Hayakawa Electric Power Co., mainly using his report head office and his diary. Firstly he managed the Yamashiro Electric Power Co. in South Yamashiro Kyoto Prefecture. After the Yamashiro Electric Power Co. was consolidated by the Kansai Electric Power Co., precursor of the Toho Electric Power Co., he assumed the chief of office in Toyohashi Aichi Prefecture.
The basic activity of the office was to invite and customer and collect fee, to gather and report information about distribution area, to manage office's staff. Therefore, as the chief of the office, his duty was to manage those activities.
At Toyohashi, when he arrived, there was the problem on electric charge, so his main mission was to solve it. He negotiated many people, such as police chief, local politician and journalist. In consequence, the agreement satisfied each other was concluded. When the Toho Electric Power Co. corrupted the Hayakawa Electric Power Co., he explained this acquisition to provincial government.
