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n. A powerful family-controlled commercial combine of Japan.

n. A Japanese conglomerate or cartel.

n. Japanese term for ‘money clique’ or conglomerate, and sometimes used in the United States to refer to any large corporation.

"Korea, which was a Japanese colony for most of the first half of this century, took the family-network practice from Japan, where it was called zaibatsu until the holding companies were disbanded by General MacArthur at the end of World War II."

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