A similar use is also made in Robert Asprin's The Cold Cash War, where megacorporations of this name, dominating the world, are not specifically Japanese.
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In the Tom Clancy book Debt of Honor, a group of zaibatsu seize control of Japan and invade the US-held Mariana Islands.
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In the 1993 movie RoboCop 3 Omni Consumer Products was under control of a zaibatsu named the Kanemitsu Corporation, which bought a controlling stake in the organization.
Zaibatsu, Japanese business conglomerates that controlled significant parts of the Japanese economy throughout the Edo and Meiji periods
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Nambu founded the Nambu Arms Manufacturing Company in Tokyo in 1927, with financial backing from the Okura zaibatsu .
Before the events of the original Tekken, Heihachi sent Lee to the U.S. to handle the Zaibatsu's operations there, where he studied martial arts alongside Paul Phoenix and Marshall Law.
Its largest concentration of assets is around the Marunouchi and Otemachi districts west of Tokyo Station, an area purchased by the zaibatsu from the Meiji government in 1890 and developed into an office district.
In 1927 Masatoshi Ōkōchi, the third Director, established the RIKEN Konzern (a zaibatsu).
In January, 1942, Hajime Yasuda, the head of the conglomerate, announced that all Yasuda family members would withdraw from related and subsidiary companies, assuming new leadership positions as board members over all zaibatsu concerns.