ABSTRACT
Since the middle of the nineteenth century, the name Krupp has been coterminous with enormous wealth as well as with leading-edge technology. Krupp subsidiaries and plants, and even Villa Hügel in the southern suburbs of Essen, have been visited by numerous business people, politicians, and military personnel from all over the world. Many of the visitors have come from Japan. The Historisches Archiv of Fried. Krupp GmbH has made a compilation of the lists of visitors from around 1900 until the 1950s; almost 1,500 of them were Japanese, who thus exceeded the number of British and American visitors. 1
