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/keɪˈɹɛtsu/ · noun
A set of Japanese companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings..
Japan's keiretsu—or families of firms in large scratch-each-other's back networks—supported this or that faction in the LDP, producing a highly successful, structurally corrupt model of economic development that showed remarkable resilience through Japan's high growth economic period.
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Keiretsu means A set of Japanese companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings..
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Japan's keiretsu—or families of firms in large scratch-each-other's back networks—supported this or that faction in the LDP, producing a highly successful, structurally corrupt model of economic development that showed remarkable resilience through Japan's high growth economic period.
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