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zaibatsu
zaibatsu Japanese business conglomerates. The zaibatsu (literally ‘financial clique’) were large business concerns, with ownership concentrated in the hands of a single family, which grew up in the industrialization of late 19th-century Japan. They had their origins in the activities of the seisho (‘political merchants’), who made their fortunes by exploiting business links with the newly restored Meiji government. The five major zaibatsu (Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Okura, Sumitomo, Yasuda) controlled much of Japanese industry and trade up to World War II. In 1948 a decree limited the influence of the traditional zaibatsu families, and prevented members of these families from continuing to hold official positions in zaibatsu companies. The influence of the zaibatsu therefore declined. They are now more usually known in Japan as keiretsu.
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Le Groupe Mitsubishi (1870-1990): Du Zaibatsu Au Keiretsu
Magazine article from: Business History Review; 10/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Groupe Mitsubishi (1870-1990): Du Zaibatsu Au Keiretsu. By Claude Hamon Paris...follows the development of the Mitsubishi zaibatsu from its formation through the Second...faceted consideration of the postwar zaibatsu dissolution and the subsequent revival...
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Japan's zaibatsu.(industrial conglomerates)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 12/25/1999; 700+ words
; ...thought. He ordered the break-up of the zaibatsu, the huge industrial conglomerates which...investment and feudal management, the zaibatsu also offended American notions of business...bourgeois revolution that created the zaibatsu. The oldest, the house of Mitsui...
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Zaibatsu: The Rise and Fall of Family Enterprise Groups in Japan.
Magazine article from: Business History; 10/1/1993; ; 698 words
; ...English on the development and role of the Zaibatsu, the giant industrial and commercial...years made a particular study of the Zaibatsu, has now done much towards filling a...considers the origins and growth of ten Zaibatsu, from their beginnings in the nineteenth...
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Deal pairs `keiretsu,' `zaibatsu'
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 12/16/1999; ; 439 words
; ...the keiretsu meets Chicago's own zaibatsu. CMGI Inc. has been called a keiretsu...interVentures, has called his company a zaibatsu, an earlier model of closely linked...family-owned companies in Japan. A zaibatsu would include vertically integrated...
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Parlano is last survivor of Filipowski's zaibatsu
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 11/12/2004; ; 529 words
; The Internet zaibatsu lives. Sorta. Parlano, the Chicago group-communications software...collection of start-ups and portfolio companies in a group modeled after a zaibatsu, a now-banned Japanese business model that uses each members' products...
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Failures of intermediate forms: a study of the Suzuki 'Zaibatsu.'
Magazine article from: Organization Studies; 1/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...organizational failure. We focused on the failure of one intermediate organizational form - the zaibatsu. In pre-World War II Japan, the zaibatsu(1) were intermarket groups of firms controlled by family-owned holding companies and encompassing...
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Saha seeks closer tie-ups with 'zaibatsu', NATION
Newspaper article from: The Nation (Thailand); 6/4/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...BECAUSE of a strong relationship with leading Japanese firms, Saha Pathanapibul Group is offering major conglomerates, or zaibatsu, a long- term investment tie-up in the group's core subsidiaries, chairman Boonsithi Chokwatana says. Among the Japanese...
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Holding Company and Bank: An Historical Comparative Perspective on Corporate Governance in Japan
Magazine article from: Seoul Journal of Economics; 10/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Coporate governance, Holding company, Zaibatsu, Bank, Industral relation JEL Classification...governance of corporations to the major zaibatsu including Mitsui and Mitsubishi, and...implies that Takahashi regarded major zaibatsu and banks as candidates for the job of...
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Market changes render Congress inconsequential. (Comment) (column)
Magazine article from: American Banker; 6/12/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...the American versions of the Japanese zaibatsu. In Japan, these industrial and financial...since World War II. The new American zaibatsu will be striving for market share against...financial sectors -- to create American zaibatsu that would emulate, and defeat, the...
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The development of modern business in Japan
Magazine article from: Business History Review; 7/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...economic development was the appearance of zaibatsu, i.e., conglomerates with the following...and nation-wide eminence. These zaibatsu tended to have close connections with...three examples, using the bestknown zaibatsu: Mitsui, Mitsubishi, and Sumitomo...
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zaibatsu
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
zaibatsu [Jap.,=money clique], the great...combines of modern Japan. The leading zaibatsu (called keiretsu after World War II...under the shogunate, most of the other zaibatsu developed after the Meiji restoration...
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Sumitomo Life Insurance Company
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...close business ties with the Sumitomo zaibatsu , or conglomerate. By 1925 these ties had become such that the Sumitomo zaibatsu took over the management of Hinode...not owned outright by the Sumitomo zaibatsu , but rather by its policyholders...
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The Yasuda Trust and Banking Company, Limited
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...management and industrial financing. Zaibatsu Period, 1923-1945 Yasuda was once...most powerful industrial groups, called zaibatsu , in Japan. The Yasuda group was built...from Kyosai to Yasuda. Unlike other zaibatsu , which diversified into manufacturing...
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The Yasuda Mutual Life Insurance Company
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...closely tied to the founding of the Yasuda zaibatsu , the financial conglomerate owned and...Fuji Bank, the center of the Yasuda zaibatsu . Unlike the other heads of large families...Company. Along with the rest of the zaibatsu concerns, the company prospered. In...
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The Sumitomo Bank, Limited
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...Japan ’ s largest and oldest zaibatsu conglomerates, The Sumitomo Bank, Limited...for the now-independent but former zaibatsu members of the Sumitomo group and has...a closely knit conglomerate called a zaibatsu (literally, a “ money clique...
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