Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) on Nostr: To be honest, they still exist in Japan - perhaps not in their formal form, but the ...

To be honest, they still exist in Japan - perhaps not in their formal form, but the descendents of the huge zaibatsu still operate as conglomerates. There are still trading houses and banks and whole networks of distribution and manufacturing that all work within their own family of (very often "group") companies.