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14-559: Kumagai Gumi Co., Ltd. ( 株式会社熊谷組 , Kabushiki-gaisha Kumagai Gumi ) is a Japanese construction company founded in Fukui , Fukui Prefecture , Japan . The company still has registered headquarters in Fukui, but the actual head office is located in Shinjuku , Tokyo . Santaro Kumagai, the company's founder, began his career as a civil servant in a police department. His construction career started as

28-586: A Japanese corporation- or company-related topic is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Fukui, Fukui Fukui is located on the coastal plain in the north-central part of the prefecture. It is bordered by the Sea of Japan to the west and the Ryōhaku Mountains to the east. The Kuzuryū River flows through the city. Fukui has a humid subtropical climate ( Köppen climate classification Cfa ) with hot, humid summers and cool winters. Precipitation

42-459: A single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan . Fukui is twinned with: The economy of Fukui is mixed. The city is a regional commercial and finance centre; however, manufacturing, agriculture and commercial fishing also are contributors to the local economy. Fukui is home to several companies, including: Shinkansen service began on 16 March 2024, when

56-613: A stonemason, crafting religious monuments and performing work for the expanding railway network. Kumagai founded his own company in 1898 and incorporated it in 1938. Between 1955 and 1983 the company accounted for more than 10% of all contracts awarded to the fifty-seven members of the Overseas Construction Association of Japan, a figure that outranked the ‘Big Five’ domestic giant construction companies. As overseas projects were riskier, these five companies were reluctant to expand beyond Japan. Kumagai Gumi took advantage of

70-562: Is high throughout the year, and is especially heavy in December and January. Per Japanese census data, the population of Fukui has remained relatively steady over the past 40 years. Fukui originally consisted of the old provinces of Wakasa and Echizen , before the prefecture was formed in 1871. During the Edo period , the daimyō of the region was surnamed Matsudaira , and was a descendant of Tokugawa Ieyasu . In 1471, Asakura had displaced

84-450: The Ashikaga shogunate , and thus eventually came into conflict with Oda Nobunaga . Following Nobunaga's capture of Kyoto , Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshiaki appointed Asakura Yoshikage as regent and requested aid in driving Nobunaga out of the capital. As a result, Nobunaga launched an invasion of Echizen Province . Due to Yoshikage's lack of military skill, Nobunaga's forces were successful at

98-480: The Edo period Tokugawa shogunate . Fukui Domain played a key role in the Meiji restoration . The modern city of Fukui was founded with the creation of the modern municipalities system on April 1, 1889. During the pre-war period, Fukui grew to become an important industrial and railroad centre. Factories in the area produced aircraft parts, electrical equipment, machine motors, various metal products and textiles. Fukui

112-533: The Shiba clan as the shugo military commander of Echizen Province . The same year, Asakura Toshikage (1428–1481) fortified the Ichijōdani by constructing hilltop fortifications on the surrounding mountains and constructing walls and gates to seal off the northern and southern end of the valley. Within this area, he contracted a fortified mansion, surrounded by the homes of his relatives and retainers, and eventually by

126-507: The Siege of Kanegasaki and subsequent Battle of Anegawa in 1570, leaving the entire Asakura Domain open to invasion. Ichijōdani was razed to the ground by Nobunaga during the 1573 Siege of Ichijōdani Castle . Kitanosho Castle is known, though that it was built by Shibata Katsuie in 1575. Also, it appears that the tenshu (keep) was nine stories high, making it the largest of the time. Castle town and centre of Fukui Domain during

140-602: The residences of merchants and artisans, and Buddhist temples. He offered refuge to people of culture or skills from Kyoto attempting to escape the conflict of the Ōnin War , and the Ichijōdani became a major cultural, military, and population center, and by the time of Asakura Takakage (1493–1548) it had a peak population of over 10,000 inhabitants. Yoshikage succeeded his father as head of the Asakura clan and castle lord of Ichijōdani Castle in 1548. The Asakura maintained good relations with

154-599: The route was extended from Kanazawa in Ishikawa, north of Fukui Prefecture, to Tsuruga in the south of Fukui. Hapi Line Fukui Service on the third-sector line formerly belonging to JR West began operations on 16 March 2024 when the Hokuriku Shinkansen was extended to Tsuruga. Echizen Province Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include

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168-645: The situation and sought work overseas, as both as a construction company and a developer, using BOT as project financing, becoming one of the leading proponents of BOT in Southeast Asia. By 1985 overseas earnings amounted to 46% of Kumagai's total contracts. In the 1980s the company became the largest Japanese real estate investor in New York City , investing in projects in Manhattan, including in projects developed by William Zeckendorf Jr. This article about

182-489: The village of Koshino (both from Nyū District ) were merged into Fukui. Fukui's city status was designated a core city on April 1, 2019. Fukui has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city legislature of 32 members. The city also contributes 12 members to the Fukui Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, Fukui forms part of Fukui 1st district ,

196-530: Was largely destroyed on June 19, 1945 during the Bombing of Fukui during World War II . Of the city's 1.9 sq mi (4.9 km ) at the time, 84.8% of Fukui was destroyed, per the United States Army Air Forces 's Strategic Bombing Survey . Fukui was again devastated by a major earthquake in 1948 . On February 1, 2006, the town of Miyama (from Asuwa District ), the town of Shimizu , and

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