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JSC Business Week 2 Session 2 Sep. 30 2009 Zaibatsu ( 財閥 ) Business tycoons. Doyoung Park Osaka Gakuin University. Last Session Review. Unique family system of Japan Family house as a company Affiliation rather than the blood relationship Householder and functional members
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JSC Business Week 2 Session 2 Sep. 30 2009Zaibatsu(財閥)Business tycoons Doyoung Park Osaka Gakuin University
Last Session Review • Unique family system of Japan • Family house as a company • Affiliation rather than the blood relationship • Householder and functional members • Loyalty and reward • Loyal employees and long-established business
Unique Character of Osaka People • Sense of Humor and Comedy Context • Two Historical Factors • Osaka – Traditional business metropolis • Free from serious samurai culture
Merchants’ Metropolis • Edo • New center of early modern economy • Growing market • Kyoto • Conventional market • Center of the traditional culture • Osaka • Supply outpost • Kitchen of Japan
Poor Daimyo and Rich Merchants • Daimyo bankruptcy • Sankinkodai, Tenkafushin • Luxurious life • Daimyo’s dept • From merchants in the three cities(Edo, Kyoto, Osaka) • Default status • Poor local prefecture • Closing country • Shogunal monopoly of international trade
Shogunal expense • Enormous money to maintain the shogunate • Ohoku(大奥) • women for shogun • 1000-3000 Concubines and female servants • Average salary for concubines was 20 million yen
Tokugawa Yoshimune’s Reform • 徳川吉宗(1684-1751)
Powerful Business Tycoons Mitusi(三井)
Mitsui Group • Est. in 1876, Mitsui Bank and Mitsui & Co. • Originated from the kimono shop, 1673 • Echigoya - Mitsukoshi • Finance company In Kyoto for the shogunate • Biggest Zaibatsu before WWII • Shrunken by GHQ
Zaibatsu(財閥) • A Japanese term referring to industrial and financial business conglomerates in the Empire of Japan, whose influence and size allowed for control over significant parts of the Japanese economy from the Meiji period until the end of the Pacific War • Konzern • Officially abolished but still exists • Mitsui(三井) Group • Mitsubishi(三菱) Group • Sumitomo(住友) Group
Three Famous Zaibatsu • Mitsubishi 42 companies • Mitsui 78 companies • Sumitomo 36 companies
Zaibatsu Impact • Zaibatsu became an Asian business model
Hyundai- Chaebol(Zaibatsu) Insurance company shipyard
Zaibatsu • Traditional type of Japanese enterprise • Parent company and subsidiary companies • Monopoly • Close relationship with politics • Family owned • Apparently abolished by GHQ after the war • Virtually still exists • Holdings,Co., LTD