From:	Paul Collins paulcollins@*******.com
Subject:	Megas
Date:	Thu, 19 Oct 2000 23:28:21 +1000

>From memory, a Zaibatsu was a group of company's that basically worked with
each other exclusively. For example, the mining company or importer got the
raw materiels, sold to a processing company, sold their goods to a factory,
then used a distribitor to a retail outlet or an exporter. And all use the
same bank.
All the individual company's may or may not have been owned by the central
company (Usually the bank I think). They where all broken up by the
Americans after WW2 (Supposedly), and they don't exist anymore. (Yeah,
right)
Combine this sort of business with the job for life policy, and a zaibatsu
could control a persons whole life.

Annachie

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