The origin of Yamaguchi Zaibatsu was opened by Kichirobei Yamaguchi (first) as a draper at Osaka in 1824. Kichirobei (second) changed his business to money-changer in 1863. After the Meiji Restoration, Yamaguchi family established 148th National Bank in 1879, and this bank changed to private. Yamaguchi Bank in 1898. Thereafter, Yamaguchi family invested to Nihon Seimei (life insurance), Osaka Chochiku Ginko (savings bank), Kansai Shintaku (trust company), Kyodo Kasai Kaijo (fire and marin insurance) and so on.
Yamaguchi family established Yamaguchi Limited Partnership (¥10, 000, 000) as holding company in 1920 and formed Yamaguchi Zaibatsu. It had developed as a middle-scale financial Zaibatsu untill the end of second World War. The reasons of development were :
1. delegations of management power to able managers,
2. good selections of investments to stable financial and insurance companies,
3. effective utilizing of capitals by reducing the percentage of investment to 10-50% in all capitals of these companies.
After the second World War, Yamaguchi Zaibatsu was not designated to Zaibatsu holding company by the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces, but it was going way of dissolution by the huge property tax, and the decreasing of values of holding stocks. Yamaguchi Limited Partnership closed its 30 years history in 1950.
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