Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A network of businesses that own stakes in one another as a means of mutual security, especially in Japan, and usually including large manufacturers and their suppliers of raw materials and components.
Wiktionary
- n. A set of Japanese companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings.
Etymologies
- Japanese 系列 (Wiktionary)
- Japanese, series, affiliation : kei, system + retsu, row, line. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The keiretsu are the key to understanding the jimusho system, but unfortunately, this is also the most oblique characteristic of the field to measure and observe.”
“As one Japanese diplomat put it rather candidly, "Japan is creating an exclusive Japanese market in which Asia Pacific nations are incorporated into the so-called keiretsu [financial-industrial bloc] system.”
“Japan's unique form of capitalism, based as it is on huge industrial groups called keiretsu, is beginning to fade.”
“The Japanese call it keiretsu; the Koreans say chaebol; the Russian word is semibankirshchina; and the Americans label the cozy arrangement among industrialists, bankers and government officials crony capitalism.”
“A keiretsu is a Japanese industrial grouping that involves long-term relationships and interlocking ownership.”
“The result is an extended organization — an integrated value chain — known as a keiretsu.”
“In Japan, banks are usually the nexus of a cross-share holding entity known as the keiretsu.”
“The world's biggest carmaker, which has two manufacturing sites in Canada, may return to its traditional Japanese suppliers, known as the keiretsu suppliers, while it seeks to regain control of the quality on which its reputation was built, they said.”
“Many of the largest companies are banded together into business groups called keiretsu, reinforced by cross-shareholdings, which can insulate underperforming firms from business and shareholder pressures.”
“Also missed were the structural limitations of Japan's "keiretsu" or cartels, most of which are illegal but exist as an open dirty secret.”
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The opposite of wasei-eigo; Japanese words used in English.
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knitandpurl "All apartments in Paris that you would long to live in belong to the domaine privé. This is to say not that they all belong to the city government but that they can be obtained only through membership in one or another of the political or literary or fashionable keiretsus that dominate Paris."
-- Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik, p 23 Sep 22, 2008
jrome "It was funded in part by Paul Allen, the co founder of Microsoft who appears to be creating a small keiretsu of semantic Web start-ups." - http://tinyurl.com/23rc6v Oct 23, 2007
cydonian Mentioned here. Sep 6, 2007