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Zaibatsu (財閥?, literally plutocrats or financial clique) is a Japanese term referring to industrial and financial business conglomerates in the Empire of Japan, whose influence and size allowed for control over significant parts of the Japanese economy from the Meiji period until the end of World War II.
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In other cases zaibatsu are used simply to provide the background for a character from an influential family, such as in the case of the F4 in Boys Before Flowers who are the sons/heirs of the 4 (fictional) biggest corporations in Korea; this is an obvious reference to the Big Four
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почему в Корее-то, ежели статья про Японию? и манга японская?