Samuel Samuel & Co, was founded in Yokohama

Yokohama

is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu...

, Japan

Japan

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, by Samuel Samuel

Samuel Samuel

Samuel Samuel was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1913 to 1934....

 in partnership with his elder brother Marcus Samuel

Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted

Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted JP , known as Sir Marcus Samuel, 1st Baronet between 1903 and 1921 and subsequently as The Lord Bearsted until 1925, was the founder of the Shell Transport and Trading Company, a precursor to Royal Dutch Shell.-Career:Samuel was born into a Jewish family in...

, creator of the Shell Transport and Trading company. The opening of this trading company

Trading company

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 helped pave the way for the industrialization of Japan.

By June 1912, Samuels, Samuels & Company was operating in Taipei Formosa (then occupied by Japan) [2] and it is also listed as Samuel, Samuel & Co., Ltd. in Taipei Formosa [3].