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
Marunouchi headquarters for the Mitsubishi zaibatsu, 1909
Seizure of the zaibatsu families assets, 1946
Sumitomo Group
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The Sumitomo Group is a group of autonomous Japanese multinational companies.
Zaibatsu
…and mindset of Western companies, and the zaibatsu emerged. The "Big Four" zaibatsu (四大財閥; Yondai Zaibatsu) of, in chronological order of founding, Sumitomo, Mitsui, Mitsubishi, and Yasuda were the most significant zaibatsu groups. Two of them, Sumitomo and Mitsui, had roots in the Edo period while Mitsubishi…
Sumitomo main building
Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd. at Auto EV Bharat 4.0, KTPO Exhibition centre, Bangalore (2025)