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Under the Japanese, the trading stations became the forerunners of the modern store.  Even as NBK continued collecting copra in the villages, it offered a wide variety of goods for sale.  Shown here is the Nanyo Boeki store on Jabor, Jaluit, in the early 1920s.
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