zaibatsus

We did so with the example of the Japanese zaibatsus specifically in mind — companies like Mitsubishi and Sumitomo.

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But weren't the zaibatsus more like that, or the Yakuza, hives with cybernetic memories, vast single organisms, their DNA coded in silicon?

Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010

We meet mystified (and sometimes delighted) (and always delightful) suits from Nokia and Japanese diversified zaibatsus and other bastions of traditional authority, who are watching their Frankenstein Monster take its first lumbering steps across the world.

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But weren't the zaibatsus more like that, or the Yakuza, hives with cybernetic memories, vast single organisms, their DNA coded in silicon?

Neuromancer Gibson, William, 1948- 1984

Examples of such plutocracies include the Roman Republic, some city-states in Ancient Greece, the civilization of Carthage, the Italian city-states/merchant republics of Venice, Florence, Genoa, and pre-WWII Empire of Japan zaibatsus.citation needed

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The unrestricted financing of the state by the Bank of Japan was abolished and the large industrial combines, the zaibatsus, were dismantled.

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Put the corporate zaibatsus under the same level of scrutiny that you apply to the government and maybe you’ll get somewhere.

Firedoglake » How’s That Again, Jack? 2006