Koshu Zaibatsu

Japanese: 甲州財閥 - こうしゅうざいばつ

A colloquial name for a group of capitalists from Yamanashi Prefecture who held great influence in the financial world from the Meiji period to the beginning of the Showa period. Representatives of this group were Ippei Wakao, Keijiro Amemiya, and Kaichiro Nezu, and because they were united by a sense of hometown loyalty, people called them the Koshu Zaibatsu. This is not a zaibatsu in the original sense of the word. During the Meiji Restoration and the subsequent period of corporate growth that accompanied the development of the capitalist economy, when the economy was in a state of rapid change, many of them showed talent for speculation, building up assets through commodity trading and stock investment, and eventually becoming involved in business management.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

明治から昭和の初めにかけて財界に一大勢力を占めた山梨県出身の資本家群に対する俗称。若尾逸平，雨宮敬次郎，根津嘉一郎などがその代表で，郷党意識で結ばれていたことから世人は甲州財閥と呼んだ。財閥本来の意味からいう財閥ではない。明治維新期，あるいはそれにつづく資本主義経済発展にともなう企業勃興期という，経済の動きが激しい時代に，彼らの多くは投機に才覚を発揮，商品取引･株式投資で資産を形成し，やがて事業経営にも関与した。

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