However, complete dissolution of the zaibatsu was never achieved, mostly because the U.S. government rescinded the orders in an effort to reindustrialize Japan as a bulwark against communism in Asia. In his 1967 memoirs, Kennan wrote that aside from the Marshall Plan, setting the "reverse course" in Japan was "the most significant contribution I was ever able to make in government." George F. Kennan, Memoirs, 1925–50 (Boston, 1967), 393. Zaibatsu as a whole were widely considered to be beneficial to the Japanese economy and government, and the opinions of the Japanese public, of the zaibatsu workers and management, and of the entrenched bureaucracy regarding plans for zaibatsu dissolution ranged from unenthusiastic to disapproving. Additionally, the changing politics of the occupation during the reverse course served as a crippling, if not terminal, roadblock to zaibatsu elimination. Bankrupt zaibatsu Suzuki shoten (鈴木商店) See also Big business Business oligarchs Cartel Chaebol Concern Four big families of Hong Kong Four big families of the Republic of China The Hongs Japanese post-war economic miracle Kongsi Konzern Military–industrial complex Oligarchy Thirteen Factories%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% References Notes Bibliography Alletzhauser, Albert J. The House of Nomura. New York: Harper Perennial, 1991. . Allinson, Gary D. Japan's Postwar History. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1997. . Aoki, Masahiko%DIFDELCMD < & %%% Hyung-Ki Kim. Corporate Governance in Transitional Economies: Insider Control and the Role of Banks. Retrieved online 28 June 2004. Print edition: Washington, D.C.: World Bank Office of the Publisher, 1995. . Morck, Randall and Masao Nakamura. A Frog in a Well Knows Nothing of the Ocean: A History of Corporate Ownership in Japan. Schenkein, Joshua (2014). Japan, the Great Power: Industrialization Through the Lens of Zaibatsu Firm Characteristics. . External links The Zaibatsu of Japan Zaibatsu Dissolution, Reparations and Administrative Guidance.%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% * Category:Business families Category:Economic history of Japan Category:Japanese business terms Category:Strategic manageme
However, complete dissolution of the zaibatsu was never achieved, mostly because the U.S. government rescinded the orders in an effort to reindustrialize Japan as a bulwark against communism in Asia. Zaibatsu as a whole were widely considered to be beneficial to the Japanese economy and government, and the opinions of the Japanese public, of the zaibatsu workers and management, and of the entrenched bureaucracy regarding plans for zaibatsu dissolution ranged from unenthusiastic to disapproving. Additionally, the changing politics of the occupation during the reverse course served as a crippling, if not terminal, roadblock to zaibatsu elimination. Bankrupt zaibatsu Suzuki shoten (鈴木商店) %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% %DIFDELCMD < & %%% %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% 
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In his 1967 memoirs, Kennan wrote that aside from the Marshall Plan, setting the "reverse course" in Japan was "the most significant contribution I was ever able to make in government." George F. Kennan, Memoirs, 1925–50 (Boston, 1967), 393.
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Big business Business oligarchs Cartel Chaebol Concern Four big families of Hong Kong Four big families of the Republic of China The Hongs Japanese post-war economic miracle Kongsi Konzern Military–industrial complex Oligarchy Thirteen Factories
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Bibliography Alletzhauser, Albert J. The House of Nomura. New York: Harper Perennial, 1991. . Allinson, Gary D. Japan's Postwar History. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1997. . Aoki, Masahiko
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Hyung-Ki Kim. Corporate Governance in Transitional Economies: Insider Control and the Role of Banks. Retrieved online 28 June 2004. Print edition: Washington, D.C.: World Bank Office of the Publisher, 1995. . Morck, Randall and Masao Nakamura. A Frog in a Well Knows Nothing of the Ocean: A History of Corporate Ownership in Japan. Schenkein, Joshua (2014). Japan, the Great Power: Industrialization Through the Lens of Zaibatsu Firm Characteristics. .
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External links The Zaibatsu of Japan Zaibatsu Dissolution, Reparations and Administrative Guidance.
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* Category:Business families Category:Economic history of Japan Category:Japanese business terms Category:Strategic manageme