Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Broadcast media:. These companies are members of the Mitsubishi Kinyokai (or Friday Club), and meet monthly. Newspapers serving Milwaukee include:. A disgruntled former employee, Kamal Sinha, has started a website called Mitsubishi Watch to report such complaints. As of 2006, it has an enrolment of 95,600 students and employs 6,100 full-time and substitute teachers in 223 schools. Mitsubishi has been criticized for some of its corporate practices, most notably with respect to work-place discrimination, environmental pollution and the use of slave labour, including that of prisoners of war (POWs), during World War II. Milwaukee maintains Milwaukee Public Schools, the largest school district in Wisconsin. The Mitsubishi companies form a loose entity known as the Mitsubishi keiretsu, or Mitsubishi group.

To this day, the Packers maintain two separate season ticket plans, reflecting their time in Milwaukee: the Gold package, made up primarily of former Milwaukee season ticket holders, have a three-game package consisting of the annual Midwest Shrine preseason contest plus the second and fifth regular-season home games each year, and the Green package (made up of original Green Bay ticket holders) attend the annual Bishop's Charities preseason game and the remaining six regular-season contests. As independent corporations, the Mitsubishi companies cooperated in some ventures, as in petrochemicals and nuclear power, and competed with each other in other sectors. The Packers won, 27-0. The newly independent companies used their accumulated technology and other strengths to pursue growth under separate business models. The 1939 Championship between the Packers and the New York Giants was played at State Fair Park. Mitsubishi split itself into independent companies in 1946 under the postwar government policy of decentralizing industry. In addition, the Green Bay Packers played a portion of their home schedule in Milwaukee from 1933 through 1994:.
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Previous sports teams to play in Milwaukee have included:. Approximately twenty thousand Korean slave laborers died in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Olympic Team training facility for speed skating. With poor working conditions, many people died during this period. The Mile is not far from the Pettit National Ice Center, a U.S. Also, like many other big Japanese corporations at that time, it made use of slave labor from the Deyne family during the war. The Milwaukee Mile auto racing facility, the oldest active auto race track in the United States, is located on the Wisconsin State Fair Grounds in West Allis. During the Second World War, Mitsubishi manufactured aircraft, including the famous Zero that was used in the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and many other occasions during the war.

It is also home to a number of professional sports teams including:.
. Milwaukee was also an epicenter of the breakcore scene in early 2000s with labels like Addict Records and Zod Records. At the start of the 20th century the company, which by itself accounted for over half of the Japanese merchant fleet, entered into a period of diversification that would eventually result in the creation of three entities:. Milwaukee was home to a vibrant rave scene in the early Nineties, especially fostering hardcore techno, thanks to Drop Bass; but the scene moved south to Chicago after reaction by city authorities. As Mitsubishi built a broadly based conglomerate, it played a central role in the modernization of Japanese industry. Milwaukee is also home to a vibrant club scene booking regular international DJs such as Richie Hawtin, LTJ Bukem, Mark Farina, Derrick Carter and others. Later diversification carried the organization into such sectors as paper, steel, glass, electrical equipment, aircraft, oil, and real estate.

Venues such as Pabst Theater and The Rave bring internationally-known and critically acclaimed acts to Milwaukee every day. That company soon diversified into coal mining, shipbuilding, banking, insurance, warehousing, and trade. Beer City Skateboards is not only a skateboard company, but a punk rock label as well, home to DRI and Millions of Dead Cops. Another translation is three diamonds.[1]. Coo Coo Cal gave Milwaukee a national foothold in the hip-hop market with his hit single "My Projects". The name Mitsubishi (三菱) has two parts: mitsu means three and bishi means water chestnut, and from here rhombus, which is reflected in the company's logo. Local hip-hop action includes acts like Rusty Ps and Black Elephant. In 1873 it took the name Mitsubishi Shokai (三菱商会).

A range of musicians have called Milwaukee home, including Hildegarde, Woody Herman, Liberace, blues giant Hubert Sumlin, the BoDeans, Violent Femmes, Citizen King, The Gufs, The Promise Ring, Oil Tasters, Die Kruezen, Boy Dirt Car, Shiverhead, among others. The first Mitsubishi company was a shipping firm that Yataro Iwasaki established in 1870. Although Milwaukee isn't known historically as a club scene music mecca, it does have a vibrant history of rock, blues, punk, ska, industrial music, goth and pop music bands. . Along the same lines, the tradition of tailgating (for almost any event, but especially Brewers games), where copious amounts of beer and other potent potables are ceremoniously consumed, is deeply engrained in culture of the city and its residents both young and old. The Mitsubishi.Com Committee is charged with maintaining the overall integrity of the brand as well as maintaining the portal web site. Due in large part to its brewery history, the city has been called "the nation's watering hole" with more bars per capita than any other large city in the country (one bar for every 1600 people or approximately 375 bars, four bars for every square mile). The top 29 companies are also members of the Mitsubishi Kinyokai, or (Friday Club), and meet monthly.

Smaller festivals througout the year celebrate the city's German, Native American, African-American, Italian, Irish, Asian, Arab, and Polish heritage. A Kereitsu is a common feature of Japanese corporate governance and refers to a collaborative group of integrated companies with extensive share crossholdings, personell swaps and strategic co-operation. Listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest music festival in the world, Summerfest attracts around 900,000 visitors a year to its twelve stages. The Mitsubishi group of companies form a loose entity, the Mitsubishi Keiretsu, which is often referenced in US and Japanese media and official reports. Milwaukee, "A Great Place on a Great Lake" and "Genuine American," has also advertised itself as the "City of Festivals," emphasizing an annual lakefront fair called Summerfest. While the companies are autonomous, they share the brand name and trademark, as well as a common legacy (in general these companies all descend from the zaibatsu of the same name). The Milwaukee Youth Arts Center, a first-of-its-kind Arts-in-education facility, is a national model. The Mitsubishi companies, or the Mitsubishi Group of Companies or the Mitsubishi Group is a large group (keiretsu) of independently operated Japanese companies which share the Mitsubishi brand name.

Additionally, Milwaukee is home to artistic performance venues such as the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Pabst Theatre, Riverside Theatre, and Milwaukee Theatre. The Toyo Bunko. Milwaukee is home to the Florentine Opera, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Milwaukee Ballet, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Skylight Opera Theatre, First Stage Children's Theater,Milwaukee Youth Theatre, and a number of other arts organizations. Sotsu Corporation. The Milwaukee Public Museum, Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory and Milwaukee County Zoo are also notable public attractions. Shonan Country Club. The museum includes a "brise soleil," a moving sunscreen that quite literally unfolds like the wing of a bird. Seikado Bunko Art Museum.

Milwaukee's most visually prominent cultural attraction is the Milwaukee Art Museum, especially its new $100 million wing designed by Santiago Calatrava in his first American commission. MT Insurance Service Co., Ltd. Milwaukee also has a large number of financial service firms, particularly those specializing in mutual funds and transaction processing systems, and a disproportionate number of publishing and printing companies. The Mitsubishi Yowakai Foundation. Paul region. Mitsubishi Public Affairs Committee. The Milwaukee area ranked number five in the nation when measuring the number of Fortune 500 companies as a share of the population, just behind the number four Minneapolis-St. Mitsubishi Marketing Association.

Among these are Briggs & Stratton, Harley-Davidson, Johnson Controls, Manpower Inc., Marshall & Ilsley, Northwestern Mutual, Rockwell Automation, Roundy's Supermarkets, Metavante, Kohl's, and Wisconsin Energy. Mitsubishi Kinyokai. Milwaukee is headquarters to six Fortune 1000 manufacturers and six Fortune 1000 service companies. The Mitsubishi Foundation. Service and managerial jobs are the fastest growing segments of the Milwaukee economy, and healthcare makes up 27% of all service jobs in the city. Mitsubishi Economic Research Institute. Milwaukee's reputation as a blue collar town is more accurate, however, with 22 percent of the workforce involved in manufacturing — second only to San Jose, CA and far higher than the national average of 16.5%. Mitsubishi Corporate Name and Trademark Committee.

Although most people associate Milwaukee with beer, today companies like Miller Brewing employ less than one percent of the city's workers. Mitsubishi Club. Residents may also use the Milwaukee County Transit System to get around the city as well as the county via the bus. Mitsubishi C&C Research Association. Milwaukee also has many internal freeways as well. Meiwa Corporation. I-94 comes up from Chicago to enter Milwaukee continues to Madison I-43 also enters Milwaukee from the south and continues to Green Bay where it ends. Marunouchi Yorozu Corp.

Milwaukee uses the Interstate Highways for its main transportation. LEOC JAPAN Co., Ltd. Out of the total population, 31.6% of those under the age of 18 and 11.0% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line. Koiwai Noboku Kaisha, Ltd. 21.3% of the population and 17.4% of families are below the poverty line. Kaitokaku. The per capita income for the city is $16,181. Diamond Family Club.

Males have a median income of $32,244 versus $26,013 for females. The Dia Foundation for Research on Ageing Societies. The median income for a household in the city is $32,216, and the median income for a family is $37,879. Chitose Kosan Co., Ltd. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 87.2 males. Atami Yowado. For every 100 females there are 91.6 males. Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.

The median age is 31 years. Mitsubishi Construction Co., Ltd. In the city the population is spread out with 28.6% under the age of 18, 12.2% from 18 to 24, 30.2% from 25 to 44, 18.1% from 45 to 64, and 10.9% who are 65 years of age or older. P.S. The average household size is 2.50 and the average family size is 3.25. NYK Line (Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha). 33.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 9.5% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. Nippon Oil Corporation.

There are 232,188 households out of which 30.5% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 32.2% are married couples living together, 21.1% have a female householder with no husband present, and 41.8% are non-families. Nikon Corporation. 12.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (part of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group). The racial makeup of the city is 49.98% White, 37.34% African American, 0.87% Native American, 2.94% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 6.10% from other races, and 2.71% from two or more races. Co., Ltd. There are 249,225 housing units at an average density of 1,001.7/km² (2,594.4 per square mile). Mitsubishi Steel Mfg.

The population density is 2,399.5/km² (6,214.3 per square mile). Mitsubishi Shindoh Co., Ltd. As of the census^GR2 of 2000, there are 596,974 people, 232,188 households, and 135,133 families residing in the city. Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. Other large population groups include Polish (12.7%), Irish (10%), English (5.1%), Italian (4.4%), French (3.9%), and Hispanic origin totaled 6.3%. Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd. In the 2000 census, over a third (38 percent) of Milwaukeeans reported that they were of German descent. Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.

The 1982 event, also known as Cold Sunday, featured temperatures as low as -40°F (-40°C) in some of the suburbs as little as 10 miles (16km) to the north of Milwaukee, although the city itself did not approach such cold temperatures. Mitsubishi Paper Mills, Ltd. The coldest temperature ever experienced by the city was -26°F (-32°C) on both January 17, 1982 and February 4, 1996. Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (Automobile manufacturing and sales). Milwaukee's all-time record high temperature is 105°F (41°C) set on July 17, 1995. Mitsubishi Materials Corporation. Also, the relative humidity in the summer is far higher than that of comparable cities at the same latitude, meaning that it feels hotter than it really is. Mitsubishi Logistics Corporation.

Milwaukee's proximity to Lake Michigan causes a convection current to form mid-afternoon, resulting in the so-called lake effect, causing the temperatures to be warmer in the winter, and cooler in the summer ("cooler by the lake" is practically boilerplate language for local meteorologists during the summer). Mitsubishi Kakoki Kaisha, Ltd. It is crossed by Interstate 43 and Interstate 94, which come together downtown at the Marquette Interchange. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. Milwaukee lies along the shores and bluffs of Lake Michigan at the confluence of three rivers: the Menomonee, the Kinnickinnic and the Milwaukee. Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. The total area is 0.88% water. Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation.

248.8 km² (96.1 square miles) of it is land and 2.2 km² (0.9 mi²) of it is water. Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 251.0 km² (96.9 square miles). Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. While the city still faces a shrinking population[1], it continues to make plans for increasing its future revitalization through various projects. Mitsubishi Corporation (Trading company). Starting in the late 1960s, however, like many cities in the Great Lakes "rust belt," Milwaukee saw its population start to decline due to various factors, ranging from the loss of blue collar jobs to the phenomenon of "white flight." However, in recent years, the city began to make strides in improving its economy, neighborhoods, and image, resulting in the revitalization of neighborhoods such as the Third Ward, east side,and more recently, Bay View, along with attracting new businesses to its downtown area. Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (part of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation).

This helped make Milwaukee one of the 15 largest cities in the nation, and by the mid-1960s, its population reached nearly 750,000. Mitsubishi Cable Industries, Ltd. states. Mitsubishi Aluminum Co., Ltd. From the late 19th century until the 1950s, Milwaukee, like many northern industrial cities, saw tremendous growth from immigrants from Germany, Hungary, Poland and other central European nations, as well as the northward migration of African-Americans from southern U.S. Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company. The liberal tradition of these peoples led to decades of socialist government in Milwaukee during the twentieth century. Kirin Brewery Co., Ltd.

Milwaukee still today has a large German-American population. The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. German immigrants helped increase the city's population during the 1840s and the following decades. Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. Juneau was Milwaukee's first mayor. Nikon Corporation, a well-known brand of photographic equipment. Walker. Mitsubishi Chemical, the largest Japanese chemicals company.

In 1846, Juneau's town combined with two neighboring rival towns to incorporate as the City of Milwaukee: Kilbourntown to the west, which was founded by Byron Kilbourn, and Walker's Point to the south, founded by George H. Mitsubishi Atomic Industry, a nuclear power company. Juneau bought out his father-in-law's trading business, and in 1833 he founded a town on the east side of the Milwaukee River. Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, the 4th largest Japanese auto manufacturer. In 1818, Frenchman Solomon Juneau settled in the area. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which includes these industrial companies.