page_title: Aoki Corporation
section_title: Establishment
hierarchical_section_title: Aoki Corporation / History / Establishment
caption_attribution_description: English: 0 series shinkansen near Yurakucho Station inTokyo日本語: 0系新幹線 Flickr Tags:&#x20;tokyo&#x20;station&#x20;bahnhof&#x20;japan&#x20;train&#x20;railroad&#x20;bullet train&#x20;tokaido line&#x20;new tokaido line&#x20;high speed&#x20;shinkansen&#x20;tokaido&#x20;kyoto&#x20;1967.
context_page_description: Aoki Corporation was a Japanese construction company founded in 1947. It built many projects in Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, and also invested in non-construction businesses, like hotels. It previously owned the Westin Hotels chain. The company, considered one of Japan's mid-tier zenekon by the 1990s, went bankrupt in 2001 and merged with Asunaro Construction in 2004.
context_section_description: The company was established as the Bulldozer Koji Co. Ltd. in Osaka in 1947 by Masuji Aoki, a former Imperial Japanese Navy commander. It opened a Tokyo branch office in 1948. In 1969, the company was renamed Aoki Corporation.
  The firm was a "newcomer" to the Japanese construction industry, and found it more difficult to win projects than the larger, traditional firms did. As a result, Aoki diversified into the hotels business, partly to generate construction business for itself. In 1976 it bought the Caesar Park Hotel in Brazil and expanded the brand into a multi-national chain of nine locations. It also developed golf courses in South America.
caption: A train on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, Japan's first high-speed rail line
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