Shibusawa Eiichi
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Shibusawa Eiichi, 1st Viscount Shibusawa was a Japanese business magnate widely known today as the "Father of Japanese capitalism", having introduced Western capitalism to Japan after the Meiji Restor
Portrait, 1921
Shibusawa Eiichi, 1st Viscount Shibusawa in New York City in 1915
Shibusawa pictured here wearing two swords, a privilege usually reserved for the samurai class, but a privilege also occasionally given to wealthy peasant families like his
Viscount Shibusawa Eiichi (sitting on the right of the front row) at a welcoming luncheon for the French ambassador Robert de Billy in 1927, Autochrome by Roger Dumas
Zaibatsu
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Zaibatsu is a Japanese term referring to industrial and financial vertically integrated business conglomerates in the Empire of Japan, whose influence and size allowed control over significant parts o
Shibusawa Eiichi
…founder of hundreds of corporations, he refused to maintain a controlling stake in these corporations, effectively preventing himself from forming a zaibatsu. What is known as the Shibusawa zaibatsu was a holding company to look after his estate for his family. The Shibusawa Zaibatsu did not hold any controlling…
Marunouchi headquarters for the Mitsubishi zaibatsu, 1909
Seizure of the zaibatsu families assets, 1946