0 a group of industrial and financial companies that controlled a large part of the economy of Japan before the Second World War
All three predecessors were major financial institutions in their own right and had served as cornerstones of major zaibatsu (prewar era) and keiretsu (postwar era).
This arrangement led to the rise of the "zaibatsu" system.
The party received support from a wide cross-section of the electorate, including middle class shop owners resentful of the "zaibatsu," salaried-workers, and some minor bureaucrats.
The early "zaibatsu" permitted some public shareholding of some subsidiary companies, but never of the top holding company or key subsidiaries.
He was a syndicalist, zaibatsu owner, and mining industrialist.
However, the companies formed from the dismantling of the "zaibatsu" were later reintegrated.
The state itself owned some of the monopolies, and others were owned by the zaibatsu.
Kyoya lives with his father, a wealthy and powerful zaibatsu owner who specializes in hospital management.
