A government-established or government-affiliated corporation providing public services, such as housing, transportation, or broadcasting. Often used in proper names like 日本放送協会 (NHK) or 住宅供給公社.
This housing complex is managed by the metropolitan housing supply corporation.
Public corporations conduct business for the public good.
The government established a new public housing corporation.
The Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation was privatized in 1985 and became NTT.
公企業 is a general category term for public enterprises, whereas 公社 names a specific corporate entity set up by the government.
公社 is a broader, still-used term for a public corporation, while 営団 refers specifically to the older wartime-era public corporation model like the Teito Rapid Transit Authority.
民間企業 is a privately owned company, the opposite of a government-established 公社.
公社 (こうしゃ, public corporation) shares the same pronunciation as 後者 but refers to a type of organization, not to 'the latter'.
public bonds
Japan Travel Bureau
people's commune
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (former)
(former) Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation
Compound of 公 (public) and 社 (company, corporation). The term became common in the 20th century for government-established corporations.