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...The histories of zaibatsu (conglomerate) families such as Sumitomo, Mitsui and Iwasaki (of the Mitsubishi group) are studded with adopted relatives and sons-in-law....
...Further deepening the internal divide is the success and prominence in contemporary South Korea of rich and powerful families alleged to have profited by aligning themselves with Japanese zaibatsu, or conglomerates...
...Related stories To preserve the family business, prune and diversify What became of the zaibatsu Lippo chief eyes digital as next phase of growth Family capitalism casts a shadow over top Hong Kong developer...
...It is a creation of one of the 1,300 subsidiaries of Japan’s SoftBank, an internet-era zaibatsu. Pepper may one day try to charm customers of another SoftBank asset, Sprint....
...The chaebol conglomerates that have driven South Korean exports were modelled on the zaibatsu corporate groups of prewar Japan....
...At the start of the last century, the Japanese industrial and financial business conglomerates, or zaibatsu, tried it, with mixed success....
...In 1945, her mother, a granddaughter of one of Japan’s great zaibatsu financial oligarchs, took her and her brother to the country....
...The prime movers of Gibson’s contemporary universe are no longer the multinational zaibatsu conglomerates of the “Sprawl” trilogy he began in 1984 with Neuromancer, nor even the vast entertainment corporations...
...In Japan, whose zaibatsu resemble the chaebol, the family-controlled groups were broken up decades ago....
...On the contrary, tensions continued to rise, partly because the large conglomerates, or zaibatsu, were the biggest winners from stimulus....
...Mitsubishi Rayon was forcibly spun off from Mitsubishi Chemical in 1950 as part of the postwar dismantling of Japan’s family-controlled zaibatsu conglomerates....
...Mitsubishi Rayon was spun off from Mitsubishi Chemical in 1950 as part of the postwar dismantling of Japan’s family-controlled zaibatsu conglomerates....
...Mitsubishi shares its name and three-diamond logo with a troop of other companies – from Japan’s biggest bank to manufacturers of automobiles, refrigerators and elevators – that once formed the Mitsubishi zaibatsu...
...SMBC denied the scheme would result in a revival of the zaibatsu system. SMM and Sumitomo Realty denied that the financing was designed to protect against takeover bids....
...Early US moves to purge wartime institutions and monopoly power by, for example, breaking up landholdings and smashing the powerful zaibatsu conglomerates, were quickly rowed back....
...That was the fate of Enron and Andersen, IG Farben and Japanese zaibatsu.Companies have no immortal soul but, like human beings, they live and die....
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