Look up: zaibatsu

1. zaibatsu
   Japanese industrial conglomerate (see cartel). By the end of the 20th century these conglomerates had been replaced by keiretsu, meaning networks of companies that are entwined. The old,...
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2. zaibatsu
   (Japanese: `wealthy clique`), any of the large capitalist enterprises of Japan before World War II, similar to cartels or trusts but usually ... [5 related articles]
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3. Zaibatsu
   Large family-owned conglomerates that controlled much of the economy of Japan prior to World War II.
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4. zaibatsu
   zaibatsu (zī'bätsOO) [Jap.,=money clique], the great family-controlled banking and industrial combines of modern Japan. The leading zaibatsu (called keiretsu after World War II) are Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Dai Ichi Kangyo, Sumitomo, Sanwa, and Fuyo. They gained a position in the Japanese ...
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5. Zaibatsu
   A zaibatsu is a Japanese industrial conglomerate.
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6. zaibatsu
   Literally, "wealth group." Zaibatsu were powerful industrial or financial combines that merged during the Meiji era and were implicated in the militarist regimes of the 1930s and 1940s. They were an amalgamation of sometimes hundreds of businesses controlled by a holding company owned by a single fa...
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7. Zaibatsu
   Headquarters for literally Plutocracy|plutocrats or financial clique--> is a Japanese term referring to industrial and financial business conglomerates in the Empire of Japan, whose influence and size allowed for control over significant parts of the Japanese economy from the Meiji per...
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